I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

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

It's very uncomfortable to talk about race. It often devolves before it begins.

The audience's imagination will do a better, more personalized version of the horror than you can actually paint. So that just, you know, with something like "The Blair Witch Project," which is, you know, whatever, it's 89 minutes of people running through the woods and one minute of, you know, a guy standing in a corner.

Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.

Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.