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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap. "

" The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn't get 'Cabin Fever' made that fast I thought I'd failed. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes. "

" I get a little too obsessive with work. "

" 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. "

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

" The scariest people are usually the sweetest. "

" If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them. "

" 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. "

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

" I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD. "

" I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent. "

" 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. "