I never have a thematic intention at the outset.

By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.

I don't have anything against either of the Dead movies, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, none of those movies. If it scares somebody, I think that it is serving a valid purpose. It is doing what the filmmaker intended. But, it is not something that you hand to kids.

The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.

Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.

THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining.