I feel very strongly that a film isn't just a story, but the WAY that a story is told. It's why I am such a great fan of Hitchcock because it really is all in the filmmaking.

I came to love the rhythm of the sound effects and the whole experience of listening to a story. I made a lot of stuff with my hands and so I loved being free to not watch a screen. I still love it to this day.

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

The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.

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.

I really think in life there is a lot of mystery and things we just can’t understand and your brain has to adapt... We all have to deal with the twists of fate whether they are explained or not and it’s how you react in life to these curveballs that is really the measure of a man.

The nature will continue, it's our existence that is finite and you are given this gift of life and you make your way with it, but fate and natural disasters will continue on.