If You Think It, The Camera Will

I Like To Address The Fears Of My Culture. I Believe It`s Good To Face The Enemy, For The Enemy Is Fear.

I Came To Terms With Living Mostly In A World Of Horror Pictures Or Genre Pictures. I Have Had A Few Chances To Get Outside And Do Something Different, Like Paris, Je T'aime Or Music Of The Heart, But Mostly It's Been My Lot. And To Have Created, With A Few Shocking Films, An Awareness Or A Perception Of Me As Somebody Dangerous And Scary - That Can Be Sold, But Trying To Sell Me For Some Other Kind Of Picture, Like Music Of The Heart, Was Very Difficult.

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.

But I Made Him The Deputy Secretary For Homeland Security Because That Added An Element Of Political Espionage.

I Wrote, I Think, Half A Dozen Films That Were Completely Out Of Genre. Comedies, Love Stories, Even One Serious Film About Vietnam, And We Couldn't Get Backing For Any Of It. And We Both Sort Of Drifted From Making, At That Time, Serious Money On Last House To Going Through It All In The Course Of Almost Three Years And Only Getting Offers To Do Something Scary Again.