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

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.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.