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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 movie house until I was a senior in college, and that was on the sly. It wasn't until I was in graduate school that I immersed myself in films. Then, I went to see all the films by Bergman, Fellini, etc.

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

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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…

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

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

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

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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…

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[I was] feeling like I'd done something horrible, "I'm a despicable person and I'm perverse," and all these things, to a sense of the power and the n…

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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, …

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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…

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