I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.

Horror films don't create fear. They release it.

I like to address the fears of my culture. I believe it's good to face the enemy, for the enemy is fear.

The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rules of propriety and decency.

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

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.

As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want.

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.

If you think it, the camera will see it.

People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.

When the mind is without fear and prejudice, and the head is held high with the strength of reasoning, then only the brightest rays of religion can penetrate the darkest corners of the human society.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

To Death I yield, but not to Doubt, who slays before!

I don't intend to stop making music.

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

I feel life I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to live the past behind.

Always check your inner state with the lord of your HEART.

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk