After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

I'm following a real event and real people.

The pedigree's pretty high. For people who are really scary movie fans, this is nirvana. If you're in the mood to get scared, just watch this every week. It'll creep you out.

One of the challenges of the movie is there are no apologies or excuses.

Universal rushed us. We started shooting without a script that was totally completed.

Because of the cumbersome nature of filmmaking, it's only recently that it has become available to the masses, with digital equipment and laptop computers. You can now actually make a pretty serviceable movie for very little money by yourself.

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.