If You Think It, The Camera Will

When I Was A Kid, I Was Taken To Something Called Telenews In Cleveland By My Best Friend's Father. My Own Father Was Gone By The Time I Was 5, I Think, But This Man Would Take Us To Telenews At The End Of World War Ii, And We'd Watch All These Newsreels. I'd Seen Real Stuff. That Kind Of Stuck In My Mind.

I Make Something I Can Look At And Say, "that's A Good Piece Of Work, And There's Some Terrific Directing And Acting In It, And You Should Be Proud Of It."

I've Found That If You Have Two Films That Don't Perform Well It Doesn't Matter That You've Had A Bunch Of Successful Ones. The Phone Stops Ringing, And After Deadly Blessing And Swamp Thing That's What Happened.

I've Done A Few Interviews Where I Realized That 9/11 Was The Ultimate Home Invasion, Not To Be Glib About It. You Know, Where The Place That You Think Is Safe And The People That You Think Are Safe And Far From Evil Are Suddenly Just Slaughtered By It, And You Have No Control Over It.

There's More Emphasis On Art And Culture In Europe Than There Is In The United States And I Think That A Lot Of American Directors And Writers Are Just Trying To Copy Other American Horror Films, They Don't Pick Up Much In The Way That European Filmmakers Do.