My superpower would be telepathy. And I would by necessity need to use it with discretion, not all the time.

I root for all movies, but I especially root for good comic book movies. It's the best, most interesting genre going right now.

I think the Harry Potter movies are proof that audiences love that stuff. They love the idea of magical objects and they like learning the rules of those objects and what they do.

We love bringing verisimilitude to audiences, hopefully having experiences you'll never have.

That's to me what always is compelling about villains. I am much more interested in how they think than in what they even do.

I created my own concept art and went in and did a 90-minute presentation that cost me a lot of money.And, the great thing is though, when I got the job, they had to buy all of it from me, because one of the set pieces in the middle of the movie was the scene I wrote, and they needed to own everything because a lot of it ended up being the movie we made, so I got all my money back. I was committed. I was going to outspend every competing director.

At the end of the day, a "jump scare" scares the audience for the moment. Slow burn horror ideas scare people forever.