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" I would love to do a musical! "

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" 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 saw 'Alien' when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars, and that's the movie that made me want to be a director. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" I have a strong art-history background. "

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

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

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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. "

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

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