The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking.

I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding.

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.

Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.

I have done some short pieces that are not horror.

We should assume that the end product can be switched off by any consumer who is offended or frightened by it.

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.

If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist.

Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.

This indication of audience interest is good for all horror movie makers at any budget level.

Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money.

In this way, some film schools can be destructive.

And the fact that you must make the movie for yourself because no one else will ever fully appreciate the endeavor, makes it a more rewarding challenge.

I think you get out of film school what you put into it. If you don't care about making movies, film school will do you no good.

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

I position everything else in my life around making movies.

We should all have the opportunity to express what we want to express.

I like the fact that major studios have been attempting horror films recently.

I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos.

To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking.

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.

I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.

Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry.

I never want to become arrogant and think I've made a flawless movie.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

Each feature I make is my focus at that time.

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

I did not go to film school.

I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.

We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones.

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.

You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.

For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.

All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.

This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters.

I have done some short pieces that are not horror.