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

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

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

" 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?' "

" There's a crazy, false notion that audiences are not patient or will not watch a story, that you have to put in a scare every ten minutes. But I always thought that was insane. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The scariest people are usually the sweetest. "

" 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. "

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

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

" '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. "

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

" I would love to do a musical! "

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

" People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore. "

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

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

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