Horror films don't create fear. They release 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.

All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.

If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.

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

The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rules of propriety and decency.

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