I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films. Whenever I go to have a meeting at Universal, the security guard just leaps to his feet and comes over, bumps my hand, and says, "Thank you! Thank you, I love your films!" And it's people who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, who 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.

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

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

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 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.