Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest

We were just trying to make the films that we could get made, and to push the envelope. We didn't realize how far we had pushed the envelope. That all came later. That all came from books and articles about the golden age of the '70s. Believe me, to a lot of us, it was no golden age. The studio heads were very powerful then. They would fire guys right and left. They would look at your dailies and tell you what was wrong with them... a lot of stuff that doesn't go on today. Young filmmakers who are successful today, they don't often have that to put up with.

When you go to a studio with something you want to make, or they come to you with something they want to make, more often than not, it's a tent pole. Not something one single person is really passionate about on a creative level.

Technique is of less interest than character and story.

God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.

When you make a Blu-ray, its not the same as the print process was. You have little or no control over any print that was ever made. You are a victim of the 35mm printing process.

Ive never seen a more terrifying film than 'The Bababook'. It will scare the hell out of you as it did me.