A good horror film is something that taps into something absolutely truthful about us - about what we want, about what we're terrified of - and bring….

I don't make movies about issues. This is my same litmus test for all the movies I love: Is it a great character on a great emotional quest with a gr….

I am a lifelong career artist, which itself is a bit of a miracle. It's really challenging to be a career artist. I would say that the argument for g….

There are a number of times when we have found, there's a number of old-school special effects in here that are fantastic, but there are definitely s….

If you're writing in the mainstream... Whatever that is - the norm. The norm is likely going to be funded because you're giving people what they're u….

I'm a writer who doesn't much think about money because money doesn't really care about me. In other nations, art gets subsidized. Writers aren't wea….

If you do really good storytelling, things that people also might anticipate and that they might have seen before - there's a reason we go back to st….

Again, let's pay all due respect to De Palma and put him over here so we're not saying, "Mine's deeper, mine's better." Let's just say, in reading th….

In The Shining, you love Shelley Duvall. You love Jack Nicholson. You're let into the intimacy of that violence and it's emotional and it's physical.….

If we educate ourselves, then the desire and need to have art as a part of our lives will happen organically. I would invite anyone to look at cultur….

I think it's why we're able to look at with comic book stories or origin stories, why is it that we can keep retelling these stories over and over? A….

I like violence because I like looking at it and I like understanding emotional and physical violence and how they work with one another... It's oper….

If I even tell anything false, within one minute I have to come clean. And I think most people, even if they're not that direct, it comes out in indi….

I think there are a lot of writers who would never have an opportunity to make their work. Some presses rely heavily on the NEA. Translators cannot s….

Chloë Moretz as Carrie has an inherent amount of charisma, the camera loves her, she's been acting since she's five, she's a total pro, she knows her….

You try to do as much as you can on set because practical looks cool and practical looks great. Until you get to a point where the reality is you loo….

Forget about Republican or Democrat - what about the kid in the middle of the country who wants to play the drums, the kid who wants to learn how to ….

The first thing a fascist regime does is burn books. To not have them around would mean to make sure they're not written in the first place..

I think it's always a challenge when you're telling a story that people know. But hopefully, good storytelling - well, there's two things. One is, yo….

Art changed my life. I mean, I would say art saved me. I believe that it made me better at handling my life..