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

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

" I have a strong art-history background. "

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

" When you make a film for a million and a half dollars and it opens at 20 million, the next question out of everyone's mouth is, 'When's the next one, when's the next one, when's the next one?' "

" I have the infinite galaxy from '2001' as my screensaver - so if I space out while I'm writing and it goes to screensaver, I can just stare off into the stars. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go? "

" I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes. "

" Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids. "

" Some disaster movies look like you're watching someone else play video games. They're fun but it's not real. "

" I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor. "

" The scariest people are usually the sweetest. "

" Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly. "

" For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit. "

" Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things. "

" I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates. "

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

" Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing. "

" I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down. "

" The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap. "

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

" I love movies. I mean, I really, really love movies. "

" 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. "

" 'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just straight-up horror. And it's so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it's really terrific. "

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

" One of the great joys of life, now that you can afford a nice suit, is getting one for free. That's why I like to do press tours - I always say making movies is just an excuse to get free clothing. "

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

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

" '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. "