With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want to know what the engine that's going to make the comedy - where that's coming from.

As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.

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

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

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

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.

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