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For me, it's very easy to write a horror movie that's just a succession of scary sequences, but it's hard to find horror movies that have a genuine theme to them that are really exploring some aspect of our psychology and our fears.

Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

With a horror movie, you don't want to anticipate where things are going to go.

Horror movies travel pretty well anyway. They're like action movies: People overseas can watch them and enjoy them, and they're not so culturally specific in terms of their references, and they can follow a good scary story.

I've only seen a couple horror movies in my lifetime. I don't like the ones that make you scream out in terror.

Horror movies don't exist unless you go and see them, and people always will.

This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.

I don't watch horror movies because they scare me!

I haven't done lots of horror.