The First Monster You Have

I Came From A Very Strict Background. [so If You Want To Make A Scary Movie] If You Were Raised As A Fundamentalist, Just Pull All The Skeletons Out Of Your Closet.

I Think If Anybody Had A Roll Of Dice With A Lot Of Money At Stake, They Would Not Want Wes Craven And A Romantic Comedy.

There Was A Generation Of Kids Who Were Just Kind Of Emulating Distant Heroes And Wearing Peace Symbols, And Parents Who Were Thinking Of Themselves As Liberal And Removed From Barbarity, But It Also Was The Era Of Vietnam. I Very Much Was Influenced - And I Think The Whole Country Was Kind Of In A State Of Shock - For The First Time Seeing The Horror And Cruelty Of War.

[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.

I Don't Want To Rescind American Directors But I Think That European Directors In General, Because Of The Size Of The Nations In Europe Are Exposed To All Different Cultures, They Can Easily Travel From One Distinct Culture To Another In A Matter Of Hours - You Can Drive For Two Weeks Across The United States And You're In The Same Basic Culture - So There Is A Certain Breadth Of Understanding And Sophistication That They Bring To It And Frankly, In Some Cases They Are Less Expensive Than American Directors.