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'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms.

The idea of a Frankenstein-like creature is something I've done several times. It's such an icon of the horror scene.

Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.

Frankenstein's actually interesting; he's kind of like a zombie.

'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

It is important to consider that the horror movies should - like modern art - not have a too obvious meaning. When you watch them, it is more important what you feel than what you understand.

Horror isn't only about ghosts or monsters. For example, paranormal romance seems the antithesis of horror. Once you have a sexy, fun vampire who is sweet, and you have a happy ending, it's not horror.

I'm not interested in gothic storytelling or the horrific for its own sake. I'm always interested in it as a way of getting at larger ideas or important meaning. And you don't see that as much as you'd think in the history of horror cinema. A lot of times, it's scariness for scariness' own sake.