I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.

How does anybody ever think of anything?

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

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.