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" When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director. "

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" 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?' "

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

" It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts. "

" I'm not interested in going after a part. I think if someone wants me for a part and approaches me then I'll take it on a case-by-case basis and see what that part is. "

" I like to take risks and do weird things and stuff that's not normal compared to other Hollywood movies. Not stuff that's totally avant garde and daring, but doing stuff that's in other languages and not using stars and using real people - things that they generally don't do in mainstream films. "

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

" 'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it. "

" 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. "

" I have a strong art-history background. "

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

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

" Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's comedy which is going to be different from Adam Sandler's comedy which is going to be different from Judd Apatow's comedy. They're all comedy, but they're all very different types and you can enjoy all of them. Horror is the same way. "

" The scariest people are usually the sweetest. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" '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. "

" Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated. "

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

" Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I can think of endless horrible things to do to people! "