I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a way of commenting on everything that does happen in life, because ultimately the only thing I'm really interested in is people.

Most people don't see Hamlet as an old bald guy.

Horror movies don't exist unless you go and see them, and people always will.

The people who feel the most strongly about something will turn on you the most vociferously if they feel you've let them down.

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.

I always want to make sure I'm telling a story about people that I care about.

"'Come on, guys, I'm the leader of a whole movie...!' I tell when I want people to fear and respect me. Not wildly effective."

What 'Scream' was great at was presenting ironic detachment and then making you actually care about the people that were having it, and juxtaposing it with their situation, all in the service of making a great horror movie. It was fresh.

I cannot abide useless people.