I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.

It's funny: I've been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don't really have an agent - I don't really pursue jobs, I let people come to me.

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

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time.