When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.
Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor.
The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?
I don't want to just make horror movies; I don't want to just make any type of movie - I don't just like horror movies, I love movies.
I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey.
I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.
By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.
You know... the only person I really had to please after a point was the MPAA. Because Lions' Gate was like, hey, whatever you can get away with is fine, we don't care.
My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that's always my goal.
I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.
You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.
The funny thing is, I'm so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things... I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn't.
I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.
Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.
My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.
NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.
Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.
