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" I get a little too obsessive with work. "

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

" I like to take risks and do weird things and stuff that's not normal compared to other Hollywood movies. Not stuff that's totally avant garde and daring, but doing stuff that's in other languages and not using stars and using real people - things that they generally don't do in mainstream films. "

" 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. "

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

" 'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart. "

" 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. "

" 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 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 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. "

" I have a strong art-history background. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house. "

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

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

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

" The scariest people are usually the sweetest. "

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

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

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

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

" '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. "

" 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. "

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

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