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" By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee. "

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" There are so many projects that don't happen, just sometimes they don't get announced, so no one ever knows about them and you don't have to talk about them. "

" Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember. "

" I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was 'The Wizard of Oz' and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that - it still seems freaky. "

" Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure. "

" Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff. "

" When you lock a movie's release date and then move it two months, it's just not good. It's good for everything but the cast, crew, and people who are creatively trying to make a film. "

" To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway. "

" The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'? "

" My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that's always my goal. "

" Every time I start the next movie, it's as exciting as the first time. "

" Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor. "

" I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love. "

" I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out. "

" I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on. "

" The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name. "

" I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie. "

" You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!. "

" Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed. "

" I like 1977 because it is more primitive. If it were modern day, like one Universal guy was like wouldn't they just use their cell phone? I guess he did not read that it was 1977 in the script. "

" Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy. "

" I'd always want to decorate my bedroom. I needed visuals and to be stimulated by things. I'm still like that. It's the way I see the world. "

" Some people hate the remixes, some people think it's cool. If you don't like that type of music and just like rock, you probably won't like it. But if you are open to more things, you just might dig it. "

" I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later. "

" Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires. "

" Just getting movies made is difficult because it takes a lot of money; I mean, it costs more money to make one movie than most bands will spend on every single record of their entire career; it's a huge undertaking. "

" But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange. "

" I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much. "

" I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird. "

" The funny thing is, I'm so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things... I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn't. "

" I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun. "