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" The scariest people are usually the sweetest. "

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

" I get a little too obsessive with work. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

" Some disaster movies look like you're watching someone else play video games. They're fun but it's not real. "

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

" 'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart. "

" 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. "

" Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash. "

" 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. "

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

" Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there. "

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

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

" Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly. "

" The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is never scary the second time. You will never have that pure experience as when you first watch it. "

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

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

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

" 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? "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

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