The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people. That is a remarkable thing, if you scream and everyone else in the audience screams, you realize that your fears are not just within yourself, they're in other people as well, and that's strangely releasing.

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

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

I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven and a romantic comedy.

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.

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.