Any conqueror in human history has always been ultimately someone who exists purely for the expansion of their own ego, through amounting more.

- Scott Derrickson

I don't want to be a mind rapist!

- Scott Derrickson

If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.

- Scott Derrickson

We love bringing verisimilitude to audiences, hopefully having experiences you'll never have.

- Scott Derrickson

Martial arts is the kind of action that does tie in well to the supernatural.

- Scott Derrickson

There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.

- Scott Derrickson

I think the Harry Potter movies are proof that audiences love that stuff. They love the idea of magical objects and they like learning the rules of t…

- Scott Derrickson

My superpower would be telepathy. And I would by necessity need to use it with discretion, not all the time.

- Scott Derrickson

At the end of the day, a "jump scare" scares the audience for the moment. Slow burn horror ideas scare people forever.

- Scott Derrickson