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Wes Craven was the guy who gave me my start, from my perspective, for almost no reason in particular.

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

I was lucky enough to have a plethora of types of roles before and during the horror movie part of my career.

As a kid, I wanted to be the person running from the monster. I also wanted to be the person saving people from the monster. I wanted to be a superhero.

It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.

I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

Wes Craven is a wonderful friend, and we had a really good time together.

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.