Mania is a wonderful feeling.

I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!

I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.

I wasn't a fanboy of horror. I didn't grow up on horror movies. I grew up loving all movies. I still love all movies, but I particularly love scary movies - as much for the culture around them as the movies themselves.

I have a real kind of fundamental philosophical belief that movies are better if everyone gets paid when they work, and if they don't work, the people who worked on them make a little bit of money, and the people who finance them, they lose, but they don't lose too much. I believe that that creates better work.

It is hard to make a movie funny and scary at the same time.

I think when people are scared, they like to see movies where the scares are not real.

It's harder and harder to scare people, and filmmakers are aware of that, and they're making the movies better, and I think they feel more original, which I always like.

The business of horror movies goes up and down, and people are always like, 'It's working,' 'It's not working,' but generally, I think if you make a good movie that's scary, people will come.

I love to go see big movies, I just don't make them. It's just a different business.

I think there's room for people to love 'Transformers' and love 'Insidious.' They coexist in a happy way; in other words, my movies wouldn't exist if 'Transformers' didn't exist, because they're an alternative to that. They're not better or worse, they're just different.

I started out producing theatre in New York.

I think it's frightening for all of us to contemplate that there's more to the universe than just us, in whatever form it takes, that there are higher forces at work, and to me, that's always a scary notion.

I really love 'Poltergeist.' I think that's a great, terrific movie. I did really love the first 'Friday the 13th.' I thought that was such a crazy movie.

I think if you went to a studio and pitched the first 'Insidious,' it never would have gotten made because it was so offbeat.

When you work in low budgets, you can do weird stuff.

Ryan Murphy and I share our love of horror and musicals. I think those things somehow go together.

I love going to see musicals. That was one of the major reasons why losing the chance to produce 'La La Land' was so painful.

I do want to grow our company, so the way I've been doing that is moving 'scary' to different things.

When I was a kid, I really loved game shows. For whatever reason, I was fascinated with them and watched them a ton.

We make movies for the cineplex. They're designed for wide release. They're designed to be seen by a lot of people and eventually make money.

Most people who've had a big hit movie like 'Paranormal Activity,' the next thing they say is, 'I want to make a $100 million movie.' I have no interest in making more expensive movies.

You know how on movie sets there are specific chairs for each person? I hate that. We don't have names on our chairs. We have five chairs. Anyone can sit on them. I think the idea of names on chairs on a set is terrible. It's so dumb. So we got rid of that.

People look down on it, but I love the community of horror. Writers and directors are a tight group of people, and we help and support each other.