I have a romantic comedy I'd love to make, but I can't get the money for it. It's hard to get people to give you money for an arty romantic comedy when you've done a horror movie. So I can just sit there and keep complaining about that, or I can go make another horror movie this year. People will get behind me on that, because I'm relatively bankable. As long as I can do my own thing with it, I'll keep doing it.

It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, "Oh, I could've done without that. If I could go back in time, I would do it different." That's the thing with violence in general.

I don't generally watch the movie [ The House Of The Devil ]. It's sort of like hearing your voice on tape.

It's Ethan Hawke and John Travolta [in Valley of Violence]. It's awesome. They're awesome.

It's funny, because I don't think of my films as "slow-burn." I don't even know if I was familiar with the phrase until people started labeling me with it.

I think having funny characters is just one way of having three-dimensional characters.

I always feel like the less you say when you're making a movie, as a director, is the best. That means everything's going great.