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!
Horror is one of the few genres that allows you to explore areas in film that normally you wouldn't otherwise.
There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.
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.
