I Consider Myself An Independent Filmmaker.

I Try To Take B Genre Movies And Treat Them As If They're A Dramas. Get The Cinematographers, Get The Actors To Do An A Drama, But It Just Happens To Be About Aliens Or Ghosts Or Crazy People, Or Killers, Or Whatever It Is.

You Don't Get To Celebrate Yourself Unless You Risk Being Mocked Or Rejected. As An Artist, You Cannot Play It Safe. You Just Can't.

When You Say Fear Of The Unknown, That Is The Definition Of Fear; Fear Is The Unknown, Fear Is What You Do Not Know, And Its Genetically Within Us So That We Feel Safe. We Feel Scared Of The Woods Because Were Not Familiar With It, And That Keeps You Safe.

My Grandparents Were Classic Indian Grandparents. My Grandmother Would Put So Much Powder On Her Face That It Was Like A Kabuki Play And She'd Come Down The Stairs. I Was Like 8 Or 9 Years Old. My Grandfather Apparently Had No Teeth Because He Would Take Out His Teeth And Put Them In A Glass, And Then He Would Try To Scare Me With It. I Started To Try To Scare Them When I Was A Little Older.

Each Of The Actors Need To Have Their Justification For Saying Something Awful. You Want Everyone To Have A Positive And Negative Thing. Even A Positive Thing Needs To Have Darkness In It. It Needs To Have Depth.