The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins m….

Movies get found in the editing room. The movie that you make is not always necessarily the movie that comes out of the editing room. The trick is to….

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room..

If you're doing a family movie, you don't want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults. So you try to ….

I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it..

When the first movie to show the anger people have about the war is a grade Z zombie movie, that tells you all you need to know about how afraid of r….

One of the things I've always tried to do is to inject myself as much as possible into the movie, so I feel like it's mine..

So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that mu….

I've always felt that I shouldn't make a movie if someone else could do it better..

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political..

I think that anybody that wants to direct, particularly writers, should spend some time in an editing room, whether it's a film of theirs or someone ….

You do form a cadre of people that you trust and who are good at their jobs and who know you and what your quirks and foibles are. It makes making mo….

Editing is kind of a solitary job..

Movies cost so much that studios really try to impose their personality over yours. A lot of times, you can get swallowed up in that and end up makin….

It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want to have to wait for the guy to finish shooting….

I've made a lot of movies with kids in them. I don't know why that is, but it's something I've noticed..

What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms….

I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the b….

I think I entered the market around the time when there was getting to be less snobbery about the difference between feature films and television. I ….

I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some….

Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds o….