I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.

There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.

We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.

You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.

My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.

You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.

Great art is not instant. It comes from experience, it comes from a place within. If you're trying to generate material, then you're going to generate stuff. It's not going to be great, it's just going to be stuff.