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

I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.

I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

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

If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done.

It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.

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

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

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

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

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

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

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

People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.

Some disaster movies look like you're watching someone else play video games. They're fun but it's not real.

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

The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly.

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

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