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" Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it. "

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" 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. "

" I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's when a movie is most terrifying. "

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

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

" Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore. "

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

" If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done. "

" 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. "

" What I've always thought I would do is make a bunch of movies and then stop to teach for awhile. And then just teach at film schools - you know, teach children. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash. "

" Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops. "

" The scariest people are usually the sweetest. "

" 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. "

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

" I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent. "

" I have a strong art-history background. "

" You know, the dirty secret in the Director's Guild is that the average life expectancy of Director's Guild members is 57 years old. The stress level is so high and directors are generally really out of shape, cause they sit in the chair and they eat craft service. "

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

" Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?' "

" I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop. "

" I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic. "

" Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere. "

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

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