The unknown is the most frightening and mysterious thing, especially in the modern world where we can practically Google anything and find out the back story. I think to have that element of mystery it almost creates a frustration that is closer to real life.

Digging up graves is backbreaking work. So I just like that the genre of horror can embrace so many different styles and textures.

It's always different, depending on the writer and the director. A collaborator like Graham Reznick delivers a fully finished piece, perfected in every way. Other writers direct the recording session and then leave quite a bit of the work to us.

We all seek comfort, and I don't pretend to want to live in squalor.

The worst thing that could happen to a filmmaker is growing up wanting to be a filmmaker.

Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive aspect of the medium.

In my films quite often, paranoia usually leads to the truth so it is kind of a psychological state of mind to think that what you fear may come true, and those are the types of stories that I like to tell.