I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.

I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place.

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.

It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more.

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.