Well, Anytime I Make A Movie, I

If I Don't Come Home Covered Head To Toe In Fake Blood Then I Haven't Done My Job As A Horror Director.

I Think In A Post-9/11 World, With The Images Coming Back From Iraq, Everybody Knows More And More People Who Are Going Over There... The Images On The Youtube Phenomenon Where The Violence Is So Immediate. Direct People Need Something Stronger To Respond To. I Think That There's Definitely A Wave Of Directors - Who Are Labelled The Splat Pack - Who Really, Really Care About Making Great Scary Movies.

Horror Audiences Don't Need To See Some Tv Actor They're Familiar With.

As A Kid, My Idols Were Sam Raimi And Peter Jackson, And I Get Into Crazy Races With Myself. Raimi Was 21 When He Made Movies, And When I Didn't Get 'cabin Fever' Made That Fast I Thought I'd Failed.

You Have To Write Scenes And Design Scenes That Are Scary And Horrific, But That Are Also Watchable. I Didn't Want People To Just Feel Like They Got Punched In The Stomach.