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"I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses."
"You can't help but be influenced by the things you love. Read more at: https://tr.im/ezGbq"
"My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor."
"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 never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD."
"You have to trust your instincts and hope the fans like what you do, but you don't gut check with the fans. If we're going to make a series, people are going to have a lot of opinions and if there's one overwhelming majority or one thing you continuously hear repeated from the fans, you certainly take that into account going into next season."
"I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time."
"When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence."
"Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing."
"In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped."
"I have a strong art-history background."
"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've always wanted to be involved in an exorcism movie. But I thought, "How do you make something scarier than The Exorcist?" The answer is you don't. But that doesn't mean you can't make something that is original and interesting."
"I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic."
"I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes."
"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."