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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.' "

" Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?' "

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

" 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. "

" It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one. "

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

" 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?' "

" One of the great joys of life, now that you can afford a nice suit, is getting one for free. That's why I like to do press tours - I always say making movies is just an excuse to get free clothing. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things. "

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

" I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears. "

" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

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

" I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop. "

" 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 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. "