I like to use horror as allegory.

I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory.

Horror films are the anchovies of the cinema. Either you like them, or you don't.

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.

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King.