Horror Films Don't Create Fear. They Release

But I Made Him The Deputy Secretary For Homeland Security Because That Added An Element Of Political Espionage.

There Was A Generation Of Kids Who Were Just Kind Of Emulating Distant Heroes And Wearing Peace Symbols, And Parents Who Were Thinking Of Themselves As Liberal And Removed From Barbarity, But It Also Was The Era Of Vietnam. I Very Much Was Influenced - And I Think The Whole Country Was Kind Of In A State Of Shock - For The First Time Seeing The Horror And Cruelty Of War.

I Came From A Very Strict Background. [so If You Want To Make A Scary Movie] If You Were Raised As A Fundamentalist, Just Pull All The Skeletons Out Of Your Closet.

The Experience Of Going To A Theater And Seeing A Movie With A Lot Of People Is Still Part Of The Transformational Power Of The Film, And It's Equivalent To The Old Shaman Telling A Story By The Campfire To A Bunch Of People. That Is A Remarkable Thing, If You Scream And Everyone Else In The Audience Screams, You Realize That Your Fears Are Not Just Within Yourself, They're In Other People As Well, And That's Strangely Releasing.

You Can Look At What's Happened To America In The Last Years And Say A Lot Of People Were Asleep. A Lot Of People Were Not Staying Awake And Watching What Was Going On And Facing The Pain Of That And Dealing With It.i Don't Care If The Rest Of The Audience Doesn't Think Along Those Lines At All, Because The Audience Is A Huge Spectrum Of People, From People Who Are Introspective To People Who Just Want To Be Scared And Have Fun, And All The Points In Between.