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I was always a fan of horror films as a kid.

'American Horror' in particular is a really crazy show. We have crazy crap happening to us on that show.

'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.

I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot.

I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror.

There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.

Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.

I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.

When I think of 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' there was a warmth to those teenagers that I related to. They were not aware that they were in the middle of a horror film, and I really loved those characters and I empathized with them.

I love '80s horror.