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There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

There are genres I don't care for, and I've never worked in those genres, and then sometimes there are people that I haven't liked and I haven't worked for those people. But if I feel like there's a movie that I would like to go see, I'll jump into it.

A good movie makes the audience feel like they've journeyed with the characters.

The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.

My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

A movie is a certain thing by definition. There's nothing wrong with knocking out a good genre picture.

On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.

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.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.