I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.
When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation.
I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.
I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.
I can think of endless horrible things to do to people!
I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like... ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it.
When people direct insults at me, I can take it.
Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling - atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war; it's hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of.
If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done.
I love movies. I mean, I really, really love movies.
As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act.
My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.
There's a crazy, false notion that audiences are not patient or will not watch a story, that you have to put in a scare every ten minutes. But I always thought that was insane.
I would love to do a musical!
The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.
When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.
If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them.
I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.
I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.
