The kids are really smart. They are sharp and they're not yet bent over by the system. I think there's a wonderful intelligence in today's youth, and it's a part of growing up.

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

You can't get away, you can't escape. You'll jump through a plate-glass window several times and end up being right back in the spider's web.

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.

Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out.

I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano.

The films I liked were European films - Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, François Truffaut.