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

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm the boss. I gotta pretend to worry.

Time becomes meaningless without memory and we humans have a unique consciousness that allows us to live in the past or the future, which is actually more of a curse than a useful superpower.

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

There's the silver lining I've been looking for.

When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes.

And my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned.

The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.

It's a beautiful thing to build your own fan base and pay the bills knowing that you're staying true to your music at the end of the day. I look at life like this, the sky's the limit!

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.