Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.
There are scripts that have come our way that are much more likely to be hits, but we don't really think that way.
Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive aspect of the medium.
Digging up graves is backbreaking work. So I just like that the genre of horror can embrace so many different styles and textures.
I may love individual people, but I am contemptuous of the arrogance , and in a way, it's both ruined me and fuels me. It's ruined me because nobody cares about these issues, and then it's the source of most of my storytelling now, because I am so preoccupied with it. It fuels me, because this is my outrage. I do believe in that great tradition of literature and storytelling. You know, the downfall and the folly of it all.
I've gotta be honest, it is a little of a mystery to me. I consider myself very sentimental, very sensitive, but obviously my outward appearance is a bit scruffy-haired, and I have a general tendency toward snarling at people, and a sort of misanthropic nature. Maybe that is what people actually read. I do actually believe that misanthropy and sensitivity go hand in hand, because I have a tremendous disappointment in the ways of the world.
I went to good schools, and I've just always had an allergic reaction to snobbishness - always found myself preferring to blend into the woodwork. I have an affinity to those who, in a sense, failed.
If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples' lives for the better.
To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
This is our great covenant: To dwell together in peace, To seek the truth in love, And to help one another.
An enemy always represents a weakness. This might be fear of physical pain, but it could also be a premature sense of victory or the desire to abandon the fight because it is no longer worthwhile.