Let's keep making inexpensive movies.

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.

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.

You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.

It doesn't matter are you good with the dice, you die. It really doesn't matter what are you doing everyone dies one moment, one way or other way.

They’ll be black because that’s the way they’re seen. Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, Halle Berry, have all known that. Will that change? Don’t hold your breath.

I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

I always loved the challenge. When something new happened, I always used to get quite excited.

The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families.

Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.