I Can Think Of Endless Horrible Things

As A Kid, My Idols Were Sam Raimi And Peter Jackson, And I Get Into Crazy Races With Myself. Raimi Was 21 When He Made Movies, And When I Didn't Get 'cabin Fever' Made That Fast I Thought I'd Failed.

Natural Disasters Are Terrifying - That Loss Of Control, This Feeling That Something Is Just Going To Randomly End Your Life For Absolutely No Reason Is Terrifying. But, What Scares Me Is The Human Reaction To It And How People Behave When The Rules Of Civility And Society Are Obliterated.

I Think In A Post-9/11 World, With The Images Coming Back From Iraq, Everybody Knows More And More People Who Are Going Over There... The Images On The Youtube Phenomenon Where The Violence Is So Immediate. Direct People Need Something Stronger To Respond To. I Think That There's Definitely A Wave Of Directors - Who Are Labelled The Splat Pack - Who Really, Really Care About Making Great Scary Movies.

Everyone Is So Terrified Of Being Labeled A Racist.

I Want A Movie That 30 Years From Now, People Can Look Back And See It As A Reflection Of Where The Culture Was At - As A Barometer Of The Culture.