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.

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.

I like to address the fears of my culture. I believe it`s good to face the enemy, for the enemy is fear.

I realized that I really, almost by accident, had fallen into a labyrinthine, very powerful paradigm for dealing with these things through genre films. And once I realized that and realized the power of it, and the fact that because horror films aren't, in general, studio products - studios back them sometimes, but they don't try to meddle too much, because they kind of don't want to sully their skirts - you have a lot of freedom.

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

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

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