If you don't invest in the characters, you don't care if they get killed. It's more fun if you know them.

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

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream. Horror movies travel pretty well anyway. They're like action movies: People overseas can watch them and enjoy them, and they're not so culturally specific in terms of their references, and they can follow a good scary story.

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.

Because I am known in the horror genre now, I try and do at least one horror movie a year for my fans, my fans have been so good to me.

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.