Horror films don't create fear. They release it.

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.

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 have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.

I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures. I have had a few chances to get outside and do something different, like Paris, Je T'Aime or Music Of The Heart, but mostly it's been my lot. And to have created, with a few shocking films, an awareness or a perception of me as somebody dangerous and scary - that can be sold, but trying to sell me for some other kind of picture, like Music Of The Heart, was very difficult.

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.

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.