When you have no money, you need invention.

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.

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.

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.

It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting re­invented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid. We're born afraid, we're all afraid of things: death, disfigurement, loss of a loved one. Everything that I'm afraid of, you're afraid of and vice versa. So everybody feels fear and suspense.

From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with them - electronic, but like an orchestra. And I could play it all myself. That was exciting.

I'm always involved with casting my movies. I have final word on it.