There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.

I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.

I try to take B genre movies and treat them as if they're A dramas. Get the cinematographers, get the actors to do an A drama, but it just happens to be about aliens or ghosts or crazy people, or killers, or whatever it is.

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.