The experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful. I just thought, I never want that to happen again.

I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

The editing process, to use a slightly grim analogy, is like the slow suffocation of lots of babies. It's like, which finger do you want to cut off first?

I'm a big fan; I like all sorts of genres. I do like an occasion to just switch my brain off and enjoy some mindless carnage.

I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.

Everything that I've done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I've never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas always exceed the budget.

I came from another county. I spent 15 years in Wells, but I was treated like an outsider. It was like, "Oh, you're not local."

The script and the performances and the style all clicked.

Now I'm back in LA, it's high time to finish a little something I've been working on.

I used to drink a lot of lager when I was younger, but I'm more of a wine drinker now, I guess. I feel daunted looking at full pints.

We like to imagine that Shaun is in George Romero's universe, that it's happening at the same time as the Pittsburgh outbreak.

But the amazing thing about life, I've finally discovered, is that you really don't learn from past mistakes. You do logically, reasonably, but emotionally not for a second.

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?

Anyone who is swift to blame someone else has simply ran out of ideas.brimekonsult

It's fun to play people who are flawed.

God is a lonely place without steak.

I think smart is sexy. I like smart people. People that are comfortable with themselves I think is very sexy. My cat is really sexy.

If youre writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books.

Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.