“ Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?' ”

“ For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit. ”

“ 'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart. ”

“ Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go? ”

“ There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them. ”

“ Some disaster movies look like you're watching someone else play video games. They're fun but it's not real. ”

“ The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap. ”

“ Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated. ”