When You Have No Money, You Need

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.

I Stopped Directing In 2001 For - Oh, Damn - Four Or Five Years, Until I Did The Tv Series 'masters Of Horror.' I Had Been Working Steadily As A Director Since 1970. That's A Long Time. I Was Burned Out.

One Of My Heroes Is A Composer Named James Bernard, And Oh My God... I Can Still Listen To His Music Today And Be Stirred And Moved By It. But I Think That You Fall In Love With... Well, Again, When You're Young, It Really Is More Powerful. Much More Terrifying.

Fears Are All Psychological. Being Afraid Of Death, Loss Of A Loved One And Disfigurement Are All Powered By Your Mind, And That's Very Powerful Stuff.

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.