For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare.

I assumed that 'Gone Girl' would do incrementally better than 'Dark Places,' and that would be great. So the fact that it did more than that was kind of an incredibly pleasant surprise.

I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things?

There's nothing lovelier than having a newborn and still plotting a dark conspiracy.

I always loved scary movies, and my dad was a film professor.

I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or done in a realistic way.