Growing up in the eighties, you could go from one style in a movie to another style, and that was okay. In the nineties, you had to obey your niche. You had to follow the...

I’m a huge fan of movies, and I watch DVDs all day, and I like to be able to watch DVDs that are different from what was in theaters. Whether that’s uncut or a director’s...

Spring Break is very strange. I grew up in France, so I don’t know Spring Break. That doesn’t exist in Europe.

A movie like ‘The Last House On The Left’ would be very hard to do in Europe.

I think the violence in ‘The Hills Have Eyes’ and ‘High Tension’ is much more traumatic than ‘Piranha.’

In Europe, there is no horror movie. It’s very hard to make a slasher or gory movie. There is no audience for that.

Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.

The most important thing when you do a movie is that you find an audience that really understands what you want to do and is really supportive of it.

When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.

When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.