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

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

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.

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.

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.

Nine out of ten Americans are actually monarchists at bottom. The fact is proved by their high suseptibility to political claims by president's sons and other relatives, usually nonentities.

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.

Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.

We like to talk about having the faith to be healed - what about the faith to be sick?.

Comedy is in my blood. Too bad it's not in my act.

The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth.

Use your heart to love somebody. And If your heart is big enough, use your heart to love EVERYBODY

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.