First of all, I was a wrestling fan when I was young. Even when I figured out what wrestling was, I was still a fan.

We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

I just aim for basketball season to start. I don't really care about anything else in life.

You have to fight really hard for a private life, and sometimes you don't have one. It just gets to you after a while. It's tough.

What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an act of creation, like a symphony or a painting or a story. But with different tools.

Horror is always the same. It changes with the culture and changes with technology. The stories are always the same. There are just two basic stories in horror, two simple ones -- evil is outside and evil is in here [points to his heart].