“In most horror films, you don’t really get to understand why this character is the way he is.”

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women’s clothes.

I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there’s that feeling you get inside that you love.

I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I’ve done pretty well with being a minister’s son. And now I know I’m pretty darn good at playing a woman too.

I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man outside my window. It’s not funny! It was real.

Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.

I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let’s just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.

I mean, I love it. I love to have the hairs on the back of my neck stand up or get that chill up my spine.

I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I’ll just keep writing them until they do sell–and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.

I grew up on genre – on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

As far as I’m concerned, those wussboys should sever all ties with the horror community if that’s the way they feel and get out of the way so real horror writers can do their work.

Hell, look at the Bible: gods, devils, ghosts, witches, giants, resurrections. That’s one big horror story. And it’s the most popular book on the planet.

There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though – ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded literature – and while commercially the field may have its ups and downs, it will never go away.

Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.

We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.