Evil Hiding Among Us Is An Ancient

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.

It [horror Genre] Never Dies. It Just Keeps Getting Re­invented And It Always Will. Horror Is A Universal Language; We're All Afraid. We're Born Afraid, We're All Afraid Of Things: Death, Disfigurement, Loss Of A Loved One. Everything That I'm Afraid Of, You're Afraid Of And Vice Versa. So Everybody Feels Fear And Suspense.

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.

Film Buffs Who Don't Live In Hollywood Have A Fantasy About What It's Like To Be A Director. Movies And The People Who Make Movies Have Such Glamour Associated With Them. But The Truth Is, It's Not Like That. It's Very Different. It's Hard Work.

Horror Stories Have Always Worked On Film. It's Where They Work. That's Where Vampires And Ghosts And Ufos Are Real. They're Not Particularly Real In Life, But They're Real On The Screen. It's The Communal Aspect Of Movie-watching.