[Barack Obama] will touch you on the shoulder and, you know - in that big brother or father figure kind of way. And you really do feel sort of shepherded by him.

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

I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.

It's a no-win situation with politics, it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.

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.

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.

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