Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.

In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.

Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.

I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.