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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" '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. "

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

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

" If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them. "

" I can think of endless horrible things to do to people! "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero. "

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

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

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

" I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling - atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war; it's hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of. "

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

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

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