Ideas come from everything.
I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
I think all actors are cattle.
I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline – production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Fear isn’t so difficult to understand. After all, weren’t we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It’s just a different wolf.
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.