I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.

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.

But are there really good people? Good people, through and through? Or are we all just varying versions of bad people, some trying harder to be good?

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.

I try to never look back at how I dressed in the first few seasons of 'Laguna Beach' because it was pretty bad... head-to-toe bad.

The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.

It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers.

I love road trips, I love driving, I love finding little towns. I just think it's the best way to travel.