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

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.

We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual.

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

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

[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 don't think that humans are, in our nature, we're evil or anything like that. But I do think there's a demon in our DNA, in our tribal subconscious that affects the way we work and we operate as a group.