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

I love cats. I've had cats as pets.

I used to get headaches in 3D movies, and I didn't want the movie to give people headaches.

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.

The domination of one's spirit and mind is not a pretty thing, but I think it happens.

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 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.