I'm a believer in screening movies early, and using the movie itself to help sell the movie. If you can't do that, I feel like you shouldn't be releasing the movie.

The scares are the easier part of scary movies. The hard part of scary movies is what leads up to the scares.

I think good suspense and horror is really about creating situations that are relatable, and throwing a wrench in it and watching how people respond to it.

I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on The Purge was crucial to that movie working.

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

One thing I am very strict about is that I don't like spending a lot of money on movies because the more money you spend I think the worse that they get.

Let's keep making inexpensive movies.

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.

For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.

I love musicals. I love horror movies and I love art movies.

When anything is possible, how do you choose?

4. Ditties of Life – 4.39 HUMANITY & DIVINITYWhen you lose reasoning you forget humanity, When you forget laughter you lose Divinity.[222] – 4

It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

I was really active as a kid. I was outdoors constantly.

There are only so many ways to get people to go see stand-up, that it really is about the product; it's not so much about the theme of the show.

Her idea of who's worth what ain't mine.

Success is fleeting. It may not have to do with you but how your work is received.

To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.

Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.