I've found that if you have two films that don't perform well it doesn't matter that you've had a bunch of successful ones. The phone stops ringing, and after Deadly Blessing and Swamp Thing that's what happened.

I make something I can look at and say, "That's a good piece of work, and there's some terrific directing and acting in it, and you should be proud of it."

I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.

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

My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics.

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

People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.