If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara,Coppola, Neil Jordan.

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.

You could say that evil is contagious in that we have this mesmerizing mentor in Uncle Charlie who comes into your life. Every person has a seed of evil inside them, and when you come across such a mesmerizing mentor, he is able to successfully turn it into a flower of evil.