I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

I do love old horror, everytime I watch Rosemary's Baby the performances just get richer and richer and more multi-layered, and I see images that are just so politically outrageous. I love it all.

We used to take girls to scary movies all the time, I don't know about you, but that was the place we would go for dates.

I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television.

Who would know that by playing a nerdy alien and a child killer, I would have a 30-year career in Hollywood? I've outlasted so many people.

I was quite a snob when I was a theatre actor earlier in my career.