I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do.

I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking.

I have a love/ hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship.

I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

I haven't made anything I don't believe in. I've always started a movie with a song in my heart, and even when I'm a little unclear about it, something magical happens and it comes into focus in a way that I'm feeling good about.

I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.