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

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" When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body. "

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

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

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

" 'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it. "

" 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. "

" Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star. "

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

" I get a little too obsessive with work. "

" I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet. "

" Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated. "

" 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. "

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

" When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence. "

" I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD. "

" 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. "

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

" I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me. "

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

" I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective. "

" 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. "

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

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

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