Personally I like the slow burn; I don't think there is anything wrong with it. When I think about the movies that were most effective on me as a vie….

Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane….

I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of ….

I've been having a lot of fun exploring different aspects of filmmaking, like writing and producing. There isn't a specific plan and I usually don't ….

Really it's always things that scare me like loss of control, dealing with the unknown and the unseen... Something that's not supposed to be there an….

After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' u….

In many places around the world, all over the U.S. and Europe there are active nuclear power plants. And for many years during the Cold War the threa….

I'm having fun with what I'm doing but I'd never categorically say no to something because it's not horror. I'm keeping an open mind..

There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. S….

Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what’s missing now is that primal emotion of being ….

For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor wou….

Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn’t really scare me. I’d say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind ….

I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just goin….

I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great charact….

Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind ….

I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's h….

The less people know about 'Paranormal Activity,' the more they enjoy it..

By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity..

Not knowing the thing that’s chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation a….

I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also ….