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.

Horror has been very good to me in my career. Doing horror films is for the fans and helps keep that part of my career alive.

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.

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

I do genre films because I like them, or because I need the money.

I may be a B-movie star, but I work. I'm an actor.

People actually were worried that I was going to get stereotyped as a monster after Freddy, but my God, I got stereotyped as white trash for years, the best friend for years, the redneck for years, the nerd for years and let me tell you...it's better to be a monster than to be a nerd.