I like having to use ingenuity... When I'm pitching ideas, I say hey guys, the real scary stuff doesn't need the big bucks... things that go bump in the night... you can scare someone without spending a lot of money. |
I like the idea that the monster is in us... somewhere in there. That's why I think I prefer all this sort of transformation monsters, that grow out of humans rather than beasts that are spawned in a septic tank. But, I suppose in a way that'd be human waste, too. |
I love the islands, South Pacific and all that. But I think my favorite place is probably France. I love the diversity of the country, the food, just love to be there. |
I never liked the Friday The 13th movies, or any of that. It's just not my bag. It's a genre that I guess current audiences haven't seen in a while, or haven't seen at all. I have a 14-year-old daughter, and the first one of those she ever watched, she only watched because of peer pressure. |
I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to do with the effects, the effects are not the most important parts. |
I really don't know what people want to do these days. It's so hard to read those tea leaves. |
I think people that love the genre giggle at it. I don't get grossed out, I giggle. |
I think the monsters today are all CG and look beautiful and move perfectly... I don't think that they've lost it, I just think they're bigger and more grotesque, the bugs in Starship Troopers or Godzilla, whatever. |
I think today's audiences, the audiences that make the big money for a studio, are out for whatever the latest event picture is, or the must-see stuff. I think it's a different crowd. |
I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money. |
I thought Godzilla was a mess, the monster had no character and the humans didn't either. They forgot to make the movie that went along with all these wonderful effects. |
I was mugged once, which really scared me, and we had a manually controlled elevator in the building. This guy jumped me, he had broken the door... the glass of the street door and he had a big sliver of that and held it to my throat. That was the scariest thing that ever happened to me. He just wanted my credit cards. |
I was the spic kid who was getting beat up by the golden guineas in the Bronx. I had to be past the gang on my way home from school. You feel like a faceless member of society. |
I was trying to come up with a concept about a new society, revolutionary... in political terms, that's taking over and devouring the old society. |
I was very into Arthurian myth. I had always read all the White stuff, devour the stuff. |