I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficul...t to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from... a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you ge...t very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man ...wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of indepen...dence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mothercountry. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you be...gin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fe...nd off madness and chaos.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »