Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.

Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.

Any time you do action and horror, you've always got to try to find a way to make it fresh for the audience, but also for yourself, and there are so many different ways to freak people out and create tension.

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.