When Somebody Who Makes Movies For A

I Never Got In This Business, In Cinema, To Make Horror Movies. They Arrived On My Doorstep And I Got Typecast. Which Was Fine, I Enjoy It, But I Got Into This Business To Make Westerns. And The Kind Of Westerns I Used To See, They Died. So That Didn't Work Out.

As A Filmmaker, It's About Surviving And Lasting. So Many Talented People That I've Known In My Life - Directors And Writers - Just Haven't Made It And Haven't Had A Chance.

What A Director Does... Essentially, It's Storytelling, But A Director Also Controls The Feeling And The Sounds And The Texture. It's An Act Of Creation, Like A Symphony Or A Painting Or A Story. But With Different Tools.

Horror Is A Reaction; It's Not A Genre. Somebody's Life Would Have To Be In Danger For It [story] To Be A Horror Story.

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.