My Mother Wouldn't Even Let Me Read

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.

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 Was] Feeling Like I'd Done Something Horrible, "i'm A Despicable Person And I'm Perverse," And All These Things, To A Sense Of The Power And The Necessity, In A Sense, Of Horror Films And Dealing With Dark Material.

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.

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.