You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?

I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

The histories of vampires and people are not so different, really. How many of us can honestly see our own reflection?

When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.

The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.