I'm always excited when I can discover new filmmakers.
I am extremely eclectic in choosing my films as an audience, and as a direct result of that, I love exploring, I love cinema, and I love learning from different experiences.
Films are a whole new world that I'm excited to explore. But being on stage is very close to my heart; it has given me a sense of belonging. I will always try to find a way to balance both.
With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.
The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can't pretend I know. I just know I don't like it.
I would rather explore the medium of films than television.
I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!
There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.
Horror is one of the few genres that allows you to explore areas in film that normally you wouldn't otherwise.
I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies.
Whenever I am abroad, I spend hours and hours at video stores. I look for classics from filmmakers from all over the world.
