“You can point to these things, and you can have that assurance.”

It’s very gratifying when that’s what you’re going for, and you can hear the reactions in all the places that you intended.

I think you just have to be realistic to what the reality is, the way people experience movies.

If I can make the movies I want, people are going to watch it how they’re going to watch it.

Normally, you have all this knowledge from all the films that you’ve done that you’ve accumulated over the years

I think, as a filmmaker, it’s important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what’s working and what’s not.

And you can constantly look back when you’re in some sort of fix and say, “Well, on so-and-so film, we did this, and it worked out fine.”

If we’re going to be considered horror filmmakers, we have to prove it not only to ourselves, but to the audience that we can actually make something scary.

There are only a few genres, horror and comedy, where you can get that immediate feedback from the audience.

Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It’s rock-solid assurance!

Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance.

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since it is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.

Griefs assured are felt before they come.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.