A Lot Of It [success] Is Luck.

What Scares Me Is What Scares You. We’re All Afraid Of The Same Things. That’s Why Horror Is Such A Powerful Genre. All You Have To Do Is Ask Yourself What Frightens You And You’ll Know What Frightens Me.

Child Pornography Is Taboo. There Are Really No Such Things As Snuff Films. That's A Legend. But Movies Are Like Pieces Of Dreams, And We Don't Need To Go Into Those Dreams. Those Dreams Are Beyond. Child Pornography - It's Horrible. Human Suffering Is A Horrible Thing In Real Life.

Directing Is All About Storytelling. It's Not About Equipment, Or Anything Else.

To Survive You Have To Withstand The Changes In The Business. This Business Has Gone Through So Many Changes Since I Was Young And Now It Is On To Something Else. It Is All Weird Today, For Me, Because I Am From The Old Times. You Just Have To Keep Adapting. Isn't That Darwinism? The Creature That Adapts To Its Environment Survives.

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.