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.

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

There are a lot of movies that I don't care about, especially not remakes.

Child pornography is taboo. There are really no such things as snuff films. That's a legend. But movies are like pieces of dreams, and we don't need to go into those dreams. Those dreams are beyond. Child pornography - it's horrible. Human suffering is a horrible thing in real life.

One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you.

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

To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.