I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

Rob [Tapert], myself and Bruce Campbell sat in hundreds of drive-insnot hundreds, but tens of drive-ins, watching these movies and learning how they were made, and we started to make our own in Super 8. And that’s really how we got into horror films. After a while we learned to really like them, and the craft that went into them.

I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.