My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.

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

I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

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

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

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.