Sometimes your characters in films do things that you wouldn't do. You're not playing yourself all the time.

Reading something for the first time and getting this feeling like the material provokes you on some level, and doing the movie is really just sort of defining and figuring out why exactly you felt certain things when you read it.

People sometimes actually get me to think I take things too seriously and maybe I'm too earnest and it's coming across like I'm better than them.

If you respect yourself and you love yourself, that's the only way anybody else is going to.

Asian horror is really setting a trend. The Pang brothers are from Hong Kong, so they just bring a whole different sensibility to a horror movie. In Hong Kong, they're actually doing stuff that's very artistic and pushing boundaries.

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

I'm also human so I have days when I look in the mirror and go, "All right . . . Things are definitely changing." I can see that.