Yeah, snakes. They're my fear factor.

That old rock and roll song, "looking for love in all the wrong places," it's true.

There's a depth to the nightmare, to the symbolism you can exploit, on an intellectual level, on a sexual level, on a primal, violent level, and I think all of those things together are just great. They're the spice and ingredients in the menu of the horror movie, and I think that's why we'll be around for a long time.

Why couldn't there be even a western slasher, or why couldn't there be a serial killer in a kind of pirate buccaneer Caribbean, just someone that's just doing terrible, terrible things in the ports, the sexy ports of Jamaica during the Pirate Renaissance.

Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But there is always a time and a place for the subsets within genres.

Now pole dancing is part of popular culture as exercise.