Dad, Girls Don't Fall Down Every Time

The First Monster You Have To Scare The Audience With Is Yourself.

If You're In A Theater, People Are Texting, All Around You. You Have The Little Glowing Screens Everywhere. Think Of How Annoying That Can Be.

The First Monster That An Audience Has To Be Scared Of Is The Filmmaker. They Have To Feel In The Presence Of Someone Not Confined By The Normal Rules Of Propriety And Decency.

I Realized That I Really, Almost By Accident, Had Fallen Into A Labyrinthine, Very Powerful Paradigm For Dealing With These Things Through Genre Films. And Once I Realized That And Realized The Power Of It, And The Fact That Because Horror Films Aren't, In General, Studio Products - Studios Back Them Sometimes, But They Don't Try To Meddle Too Much, Because They Kind Of Don't Want To Sully Their Skirts - You Have A Lot Of Freedom.

I Did Have The Resource Of Having Taught Greek Mythology And The History Of Western Civilization, And You Can Go Back Into The Plays Of Aeschylus And Follow What Happens When People Seek Revenge, And There Are People Plucking Their Eyes Out. And Greek Mythology Is Filled With All Kinds Of Monsters And Whatnot.