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 was] feeling like I'd done something horrible, "I'm a despicable person and I'm perverse," and all these things, to a sense of the power and the necessity, in a sense, of horror films and dealing with dark material.

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 have felt over the years a definite progression or arc from feeling guilty about what I had done with the first one [film], because certainly there was all that fundamentalist guilt that came pouring back in.

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.

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.