The Process Of Making A Movie Has

I Also Think The Relationship I Have With My Audience Is A Lot More Complex Than What Hitchcock Seemed To Want His To Be - Although I Think He Had More Going On Under The Surface As Well.

For Example I Don't Work With William Hurt The Same Way That I Will Work With Viggo. They're Different Guys And They Work In Different Ways. So A Good Sensitive Director Has His General Style And Technique And Personality That He Uses But You Don't Impose That On The Actors.

I Think Of Horror Films As Art, As Films Of Confrontation. Films That Make You Confront Aspects Of Your Own Life That Are Difficult To Face. Just Because You're Making A Horror Film Doesn't Mean You Can't Make An Artful Film.

As A Filmmaker, I Ask Questions But Don't Have Answers. Moviemaking Is A Philosophical Exploration. I Invite The Audience To Come On The Journey And Discover What They Think And Feel.

It Was Apparent To Me That Religion Was An Invented Thing, A Wish-fulfillment Thing, A Fantasy Thing. It Was Much More Real, Dangerous, To Accept That Mortality Was The End For You As An Individual. As An Atheist, I Don't Believe In An Afterlife, So If You're Thinking Of Murder, If Your Subject Is Murder, Then That's A Physical Act Of Absolute Destruction Because You're Ending Something, A Body, That Is Unique. That Person Never Existed Before, Will Never Exist Again, Will Not Be Karmically Recycled, Will Not Go To Heaven, Therefore I Take It Seriously.