"We live in an age now where so many people watch movies based on what Netflix recommends. It learns your taste and they really understand viewer habits."
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"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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"Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops."
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"Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere."
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"You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach."
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"Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore."
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"It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both."
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"'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another."
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"The world is changing. Social media is a way to sell movies and to build a fan base. The truth is that you have followers because they know you are into it and you're funny and you like it. I think it's great."
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"'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart."
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"I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet."
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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."
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"I hear what people say, I read all the reviews, all the blogs, and I am always curious to hear it, because you can't always listen to the good press, you have to hear the bad press, too."
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"I get a little too obsessive with work."
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"I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down."
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"I can think of endless horrible things to do to people!"
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"I love movies that have that resonating scare, that really get under your skin and make you think."
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