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

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

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

" 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 generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you laugh. The laugh doesn't wear off. It could be with you for thirty years. "

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

" Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor. "

" 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. "

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

" Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing. "

" You know, the dirty secret in the Director's Guild is that the average life expectancy of Director's Guild members is 57 years old. The stress level is so high and directors are generally really out of shape, cause they sit in the chair and they eat craft service. "

" 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? "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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