I want to make a movie that has enough impact that it's going to do what it needs to do. But I don't want to make a film that serial killers masturbate to.

You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the succe…

For me, the scariest thing about a serial killer is that there's somebody who lives next door to you, running power tools late into the night, and you don't kn…

I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like tel…

I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there. And I think a lot…

'It is deeply moving, powerful, and disturbing. A film that must be seen.'