I joke and I say, 'I need to go back to make a supernatural horror film just to so that I can make a movie that's grounded again.'
I think, ultimately, if you create characters that people like and can relate to, your characters are grounded on a human level even if your cars are not.
I cannot state enough how important post-production is for the success of a horror movie. You bring so much to it with the way you edit it, the way it is sound-designed, and the way the music works with it.
If I have free time, I want to go to the beach, walk around a shopping mall, go grocery shopping. Live a little bit of life.
People used to always complain that horror films have no stories, that it's all just about kills and stuff like that.
The deep sea is a scary world.
I've always loved action movies. The first films I fell in love with were 'Star Wars' and Steven Spielberg films.
I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.
I feel like, with most filmmakers of my generation, I like the over-the-top stuff. I like to be wacky and really in your face.
I'm a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with 'The Conjuring.'
I didn't direct any of the 'Saw' sequels, but people thought I did.
When I was a kid, my grandfather used to watch Bollywood films. There's a lot of colour and vibrancy to the Indian films.
I love Carpenter, I love Craven - these are all the classics - the Romeros of the world, but I think the biggest influence on me as a storyteller and as a filmmaker is actually Steven Spielberg. I love that even though Steven isn't known for being a horror director, he started out his career making scary movies.
The size of the budget doesn't make that much of a difference because the kind of issues I have on a low budget film I have on a big budget film as well, but they're just much bigger.
I guess, deep down, there's a dark side to us. I guess that's why movie fans really love the revenge drama. We like to go into dark movie theaters and fantasize.
'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred, but fascinated, me with puppets and dolls, clowns and stuff like that.
We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies you're going to find in terms of craft. You can't scare people if they see the seams.
I think Mel Gibson could make 'Passion of the Christ' because he really believed in it and gave it his all.
I always felt that what is scary is actually hearing someone tell you what they think they see. That sense of invisibility makes things a lot scarier, since your imagination tends to fill in the gaps.
I can make any kind of movies. I can put up with any kind of situation. And I can tackle them.
