You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else. My style of filmmaking happens to be give the audience what they know they don't want, but they want. Ultimately I have to write and direct in a way that let's just say, you don't want to regret making a choice.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people.

You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.

When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide.

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.

With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist.