I just love sitting in a theater watching a film and the grain is like boiling and it feels completely alive like an organism almost; like an organism made out of light.
Well I don't think of myself as like a horror or science fiction filmmaker. I just think of myself as a filmmaker.
When I was growing up in the eighties, there was a real nostalgic streak for the fifties. Look at 'Back to the Future.'
The way I work is I'll basically become kind of fixated on a very stripped-down genre, like revenge or something like that, and just start layering on top of that and entering in thoughts and ideas, and then the story just kind of builds up that way.
The male ego is a terrifying, terrifying thing, you know? If it's shattered, it becomes even more dangerous.
I just find there's nothing funnier and more scary than a delusional man who thinks they're the center of the universe, and in fact they're not.
The way people express themselves online, that's also how they express themselves in the real world.
I've been watching films my whole life and am completely obsessed with them.
I taught myself filmmaking on my own.
When I was finally allowed to watch horror in my early teens I think I overdid it, I actually ended up generating some kind of low grade PTSD, I was paranoid and scared of our house being broken into. It actually took me a long time to get over that.
I have a long, complicated history with horror.
I think making a film is as much knowing what you don't like as what you do like, and avoiding the things that you don't like like the plague and making sure that they never appear onscreen in any shape or form.
I think what I was unconsciously expressing in 'Black Rainbow' was a very abstract and metaphorical grief, in the way I had suppressed my grief about my mother dying. In retrospect I realise I started writing 'Mandy' as a sort of antidote to that, to sort of express those emotions, to purge that grief.
Certain things just rub me the wrong way.
I think you have to be wise and know your limitations and know how to work within them.
I've had a VHS collection for many, many years. But I would prefer to watch a movie in the best format possible.
I am not against it. But I am suspicious of all forms of New Age spirituality, and religion in general.
Well, I'm really interested in the idea of making genre films, but movies have a much more personal undercurrent to them and that look beautiful, and that's sort of the films I'm kind of interested in making.
I realized the modern equivalent of a broadsword duel would be a chainsaw battle.
If I'm going to sell out, I'm going to sell out all the way, so a bid by the studio would be if you're going to go through the pain of trying to make a film, it's gotta be worth it.
