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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have a strong art-history background. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put in that extra level of thought; after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they'll respond to it and enjoy it. "

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

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

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

" There's something very scary about exposing yourself on camera, knowing that you're going to be put on thousands of screens around the world for everyone to judge, but there's also something very thrilling and exciting about it. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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? "

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" 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. "