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

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

For me, the social thriller is the thriller in which the fears, the horrors, and the thrills are coming from society. They're coming from the way humans interact.

I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the other category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly.

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

The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.

Since we were renamed, and now it feels like 80 percent of the African-American population has the name Washington or Jefferson or some president or slave owner's name. And, I almost wonder is this, like, is this part of a way of taking back the principle of naming your - I might be going too far into this - but naming your kids something of your choice?