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You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.

People don't call them horror movies, but Hitchcock, for me, is my favorite storyteller. He was really exploring dark themes, and I don't know what category you put his movies in. Thriller? Horror? Some of them go in either one.

'The Living And The Dead' is one of those scripts that you read and are instantly compelled and engaged by. It's intelligent, chilling, and engrossing.

I did so many comedies that we've had numerous discussions about horror of film and I've always been really hesitant to do so because the last thing I wanted to make was a horror movie.

I don't really like horror shows, horror movies, or any of that. I'm really a lightweight, in terms of that.

To be fair, when I started doing 'Verdict' I literally had no idea what I was doing. I wanted to do some theatre, as I wanted to do something different. I wanted to learn and get an understanding of the craft.

I have always loved reading a little creep-factor and a lot of suspense.

As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.

Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch.

The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.

I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.

I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.

Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.

Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick yourself into believing a lot of unbelievable phenomena.

What you don't see is scarier than what you do. Categorization is always kind of arbitrary, but people have called 'Preservation' a 'psychological thriller.' To me, psychological thriller basically means 'a horror movie without the blood.'

I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm,' I get a little tense because I know someone's going to jump out of somewhere.

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.

I think you need humour and a sense of fun, which is what I try to bring to my books to leaven the danger and action. The ones that really transcend the genre always have a great laugh in them, such as 'Fright Night,' 'Lost Boys,' 'American Werewolf in London' - just to name a few.

Clearly I'm really attracted to parts where there's a dark, sinister feel about them!

Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction.