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.

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

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

Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep.

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

I wasn't allowed to see movies when I was a child. It was against the religion I was raised in, Fundamentalist Baptist. I didn't go into a commercial movie house until I was a senior in college, and that was on the sly. It wasn't until I was in graduate school that I immersed myself in films. Then, I went to see all the films by Bergman, Fellini, etc.

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