Horror Films Don't Create Fear.

I've Done A Few Interviews Where I Realized That 9/11 Was The Ultimate Home Invasion, Not To Be Glib About It. You Know, Where The Place That You Think Is Safe And The People That You Think Are Safe And Far From Evil Are Suddenly Just Slaughtered By It, And You Have No Control Over It.

Something Like Nightmare On Elm Street, To Me, Was Kind Of An Examination Of Levels Of Consciousness And The Pain Of Facing The Truth, And How Easy It Is To Fall Asleep, Or Want To Fall Asleep.

It's Quite Rare That You Make Something And Think That You Did Something That No-one Else Had Done.

I Wrote, I Think, Half A Dozen Films That Were Completely Out Of Genre. Comedies, Love Stories, Even One Serious Film About Vietnam, And We Couldn't Get Backing For Any Of It. And We Both Sort Of Drifted From Making, At That Time, Serious Money On Last House To Going Through It All In The Course Of Almost Three Years And Only Getting Offers To Do Something Scary Again.

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.