It's quite rare that you make something and think that you did something that no-one else had done.

I came from a very strict background. [So if you want to make a scary movie] if you were raised as a fundamentalist, just pull all the skeletons out of your closet.

I've done a few interviews where I realized that 9/11 was the ultimate home invasion, not to be glib about it. You know, where the place that you think is safe and the people that you think are safe and far from evil are suddenly just slaughtered by it, and you have no control over it.

Horror films don't create fear. They release it.

All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.

Dad, girls don't fall down every time they run.

A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.