When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body.
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.
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.
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.
What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.
I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.
Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.
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.
Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering , 'When do I put my arm around her?'
Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.
I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.
I've always been a fan of 3D, going back to movies in the '50s. I was part of the early '80s 3D craze, which was coming at you in Jaws 3D, so I've always wanted to make a 3D film.
People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.
Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.
I love movies. I mean, I really, really love movies.
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.
I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it.
For the fee of $10,000, anyone could be escorted to a room, handed a loaded gun and offered another human to kill. The concept made me nauseous. But it also felt real, and rang bells with my more cynical side.
When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.
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.
So when I was beating the guy, I started thinking, 'What if I was Hannah Montana?' . . . And little do they know that that's why I look so insane . . . I'm torturing myself with thoughts of, 'How could I actually pull off being a high school student and a pop star at night?'
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.
If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them.
I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.
Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly.
