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.

Filmmaking is a real craft.

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

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

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.