It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.

There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'

I'm having fun with what I'm doing but I'd never categorically say no to something because it's not horror. I'm keeping an open mind.

For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.

By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.

The less people know about 'Paranormal Activity,' the more they enjoy it.

I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

Not knowing the thing that’s chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you

Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.

You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.

I believe that for every illness or ailment known to man, that God has a plant out here that will heal it. We just need to keep discovering the properties for natural healing.

You can't kill rock and roll without a silver bullet because she's a werewolf.

I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level.

In order to have creativity, you have to allow for dead ends to happen.

Now unto him who is able to strengthen you … be glory.

But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.

Loving is a laborious and complex business.

They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind.

When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.