For me, it's important that a movie is the congregate of all art forms, from writing to art composition to music to performing. Trying to keep a balance of all those is what I think a director's job is.

The only features I've done have been on the lower-budget end, for what they were. It's really all about getting the best people aboard and committing to doing the best work possible and prioritizing where your time is going to be spent.

Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.

For me, it's important that a movie is the congregate of all art forms, from writing to art composition to music to performing. Trying to keep a balance of all those is what I think a director's job is.

Having been a singer in a band, back in my youth, music is really important to me.

The whole point is you're telling a story to an audience. So when there's no audience, it's like cinematic masturbation.

Fighting the wild branches of a haunted tree is not something that every actor is confident enough to attack, literally and figuratively.