In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the horror genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials.

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.

My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.

Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.