I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of.

In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.

We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.

Actors are such an insecure breed.

I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though.

Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.

I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one.

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able to go back to sleep.

I am here for readers to see parts of themselves during my dark days, but also for a better way of living in my triumphs and gained wisdom.

Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

Nothing changes until it becomes what it is.

Too many women in too many countries speak the same language, of silence.

Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.

All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.