I wasn't allowed to see movies when I was a child. It was against the religion I was raised in, Fundamentalist Baptist. I didn't go into a commercial….

It's quite rare that you make something and think that you did something that no-one else had done..

People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that..

I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the….

All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, ….

Horror films don't create fear. They release it..

A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose..

I realized that I really, almost by accident, had fallen into a labyrinthine, very powerful paradigm for dealing with these things through genre film….

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films. Whenever I go to have a meeting at Universa….

A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temp….

There's more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot of American directors and writers are ju….

I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures..

The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rule….

If you think it, the camera will see it..

As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want..

The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equiva….

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much..

Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy i….

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry wit….

I like to address the fears of my culture. I believe it`s good to face the enemy, for the enemy is fear..

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself..