When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
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I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.
It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.
It's not an easy place to be - to write a horror film. You go down the stairs to the dark to find these characters. It's not a place anyone can go, and sometimes it's not a place that you want to go.
I'm a character and relationship guy, and even with the 'Saw' films, it's special-effects people's jobs to create these scary things. It's not my job. My job is to bring some sense of humanity to the character, no matter how evil he may be. The script is going to take me there.
Sometimes you read a script, and you just think, 'Wow, I would love to go and tell that story, and I don't even care what happens to the film, I would just love that experience.' And often, that mentality makes a great film.
I almost always do things that I like, in some form or fashion. Every once in awhile that means that I don't think the script is any good and I don't have any trust in the people, but the film is shooting in Sri Lanka, or somewhere like that, so I'm going.
With a horror movie, you don't want to anticipate where things are going to go.
No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.
I'm not a director to make an action or horror film. That's not for me.
I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.
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