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" Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted. "

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" The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more than to make a scary movie, and I just kind of wrapped my political treatise of the class distinctions in England in this movie. "

" I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush. "

" In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it. "

" I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence. "

" I am anything but a misogynist - I am quite far to the other side of that. "

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" I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society. "

" I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life. "

" One of the great things going on in Chicago is the educational facilities here. And the largest film school in the world is right here in Chicago: Columbia College. "

" I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield. "

" The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be. "

" I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School. "

" You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it. "

" Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys. "