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I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don't care about the characters, you've lost the audience. No one cares, and it becomes a process of watching people get killed.

If you care about the characters, then whatever scary thing happens to them, you feel it even more.

I think it's important that a director be able to know his characters inside and out.

Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing that's so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.

There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about.