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" Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor. "

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" What's important for me is staying healthy. "

" Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist. "

" Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things. "

" I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears. "

" When people direct insults at me, I can take it. "

" 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. "

" You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. "

" When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director. "

" 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. "

" I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it. "

" Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts. "

" As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge. "

" A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you laugh. The laugh doesn't wear off. It could be with you for thirty years. "

" There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them. "

" I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put in that extra level of thought; after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they'll respond to it and enjoy it. "

" When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation. "

" What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies. "

" As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn't get 'Cabin Fever' made that fast I thought I'd failed. "

" I have control issues. For sure, no question. "

" It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre. "

" Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with. "

" Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. "

" I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it. "

" Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there. "

" 'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another. "

" 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. "