As Long As You Keep The Audience

If You're In A Theater, People Are Texting, All Around You. You Have The Little Glowing Screens Everywhere. Think Of How Annoying That Can Be.

I Have A Lot Of Fans Who Are People Of Color. I Think, If Nothing Else, I Kind Of Understand That Sense Of Being On The Outside Looking In, Culturally.

A Collection Of Masks, Depicting Historical Figures In Life And What I Like To Call The Eternal Repose.

I Think The Important Thing About Staying Creative And Staying Sharp And Original Is Not To Look Back Too Much, And To Kind Of Look To Where Your Vision Is Going Now. But I Have Felt Over The Years A Definite Progression Or Arc From Feeling Guilty About What I Had Done With The First One, Because Certainly There Was All That Fundamentalist Guilt That Came Pouring Back In. 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 Necessity, In A Sense, Of Horror Films And Dealing With Dark Material.

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 With Joy And Inspire Them To Reach For The Stars.