When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.

It's fun doing new things.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.

I have always tried to stay current.

I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies.

I'm not a big gore hound but monster gore is different to me than killing a teenager in any way that you can when another human-like person does it. I don't know how I rationalize that really but it seems different to me.