Horror Is A Reaction; It's Not A

I'm Pretty Happy With Who I Am. I Like Myself And What I'm Doing. I Don't Need To Be The World's Greatest Director Or The Most Famous -- Or The Richest. I Don't Need To Make A Whole Lot Of Great Films. I Can Do My Job And I Can Do It Pretty Well. This Is The Realization I've Come To, Later In Life. It's Called Growing Up.

Way Back In The '70s, I Was Approached To Talk About The Story I'd Write For A Spider-man Movie. They Also Talked To Me About Batman. I Had To Think About It, But That Was Way, Way Back When.

It [horror Genre] Never Dies. It Just Keeps Getting Re­invented And It Always Will. Horror Is A Universal Language; We're All Afraid. We're Born Afraid, We're All Afraid Of Things: Death, Disfigurement, Loss Of A Loved One. Everything That I'm Afraid Of, You're Afraid Of And Vice Versa. So Everybody Feels Fear And Suspense.

I Have Two Different Categories Of Favorite Films. One Is The Emotional Favorites, Which Means These Are Generally Films That I Saw When I Was A Kid; Anything You See In Your Formative Years Is More Powerful, Because It Really Stays With You Forever. The Second Category Is Films That I Saw While I Was Learning The Craft Of Motion Pictures.

I'm Always Involved With Casting My Movies. I Have Final Word On It.