People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a lovable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.

For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.

I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film.

I think you can say a lot with the movement of your camera but you can also say a lot by keeping it still.

We're not just horror fans. We're film fans. I love action films. I want to do action films. I want to do romantic comedies. I love all this stuff. So, if I find the good material, I'll do it.

I always believe your instinct is the most correct instinct.

You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can say a lot as well.

The whole wide world scares me! Seriously. I think what happens in our world is so much more frightening than anything I can come up with in my movies.

There's really no reason to rehash something that you've already seen.

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous and you cannot take anything for granted.

I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.

See it for what it is and own it, rather than rethink it so you don't have to deal with the trauma of the abuse. This is the only way to move on--through acceptance.

If dual torment is to be my one condition, both of loving and being loved I would quit.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

I love traveling, but I hate planes.

If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that’s what it’s like, I wouldn’t mind.

Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.

Imagine if you were a drummer, and you accidentally picked up two magic wands instead of sticks. There you are, keeping the beat, the next thing you know, your bass player turns into a can of soup.

You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.