I Came To Terms With Living Mostly

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.

I Make Something I Can Look At And Say, "that's A Good Piece Of Work, And There's Some Terrific Directing And Acting In It, And You Should Be Proud Of It."

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 Think That There Has Been A Slow Recognition That There's A Mind At Work Here, And There's A Skill And Some Bit Of Artistry, And That I Could Probably Do Other Things. Otherwise, I Don't Know That I Would've Been Given The Opportunity To Do Paris, Je T'aime.

There's More Emphasis On Art And Culture In Europe Than There Is In The United States And I Think That A Lot Of American Directors And Writers Are Just Trying To Copy Other American Horror Films, They Don't Pick Up Much In The Way That European Filmmakers Do.