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

But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.

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.

There was a generation of kids who were just kind of emulating distant heroes and wearing peace symbols, and parents who were thinking of themselves as liberal and removed from barbarity, but it also was the era of Vietnam. I very much was influenced - and I think the whole country was kind of in a state of shock - for the first time seeing the horror and cruelty of war.

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.

As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want.