As A Filmmaker, It's About Surviving And

When Somebody Who Makes Movies For A Living - Either As An Actor, Writer, Producer Or Director - Lives To Be A Certain Age, You Have To Admire Them. It Is An Act Of Courage To Make A Film - A Courage For Which You Are Not Prepared In The Rest Of Life. It Is Very Hard And Very Destructive. But We Do It Because We Love It.

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.

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.

Movies Are Pieces Of Film Stuck Together In A Certain Rhythm, An Absolute Beat, Like A Musical Composition. The Rhythm You Create Affects The Audience.

It's A Very Good Time For Horror. This Business Certainly Has Changed, But There's Still Room For Serious Horror Films. Look At 28 Days Later, That's Not A Tongue-in-cheek Picture.