- I want to give evil poignancy instead of making it straight-out monstrous. People aren't black and white. They live in gray areas, and I like giving my heroes and villains different shadings.
- I love horror movies because they have such tremendous energy, and a lot of them don't go far enough. I've attempted to give my pictures a real human level.
- Having a little girl hacking her privates bloody with a crucifix, sticking her mother's face in it, and then turning her head 180 degrees around is without question the most horrific and transgressive set piece in American horror. That the sequence in The Exorcist (1973) was staged in broad daylight added to the terror, as did the incredible subliminal sound work. This unequalled masterpiece remains a great influence on my work, and I'm always trying to achieve that sense of reality and suspension of disbelief.
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