My Mother Wouldn't Even Let Me Read

I'm Having A Reputation Of Being Somebody Who Will Not Be Crazy. Not Descend To Doing Drugs And Spending An Enormous Amount Of Money, And Instead Delivering A Product To People. Something They Can Sell And Recoup Their Money And Make A Profit.

All Of Us Have Our Individual Curses, Something That We Are Uncomfortable With And Something That We Have To Deal With, Like Me Making Horror Films, Perhaps.

I Think The Important Thing About Staying Creative And Staying Sharp And Original Is Not To Look Back Too Much, And To Kind Of Look To Where Your Vision Is Going Now. But I Have Felt Over The Years A Definite Progression Or Arc From Feeling Guilty About What I Had Done With The First One, Because Certainly There Was All That Fundamentalist Guilt That Came Pouring Back In. 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.

I've Found That If You Have Two Films That Don't Perform Well It Doesn't Matter That You've Had A Bunch Of Successful Ones. The Phone Stops Ringing, And After Deadly Blessing And Swamp Thing That's What Happened.