I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.

Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.

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

I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.

Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately. You've got to recreate it.

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