Leigh Whannell

Somewhere along the way, the ability to make terrifying big budget films like 'The Exorcist' or 'The Shining' was lost, and I don't know if we'll ever get it back.

I'm still a big believer in movie theaters, and going to see movies in public.

When I was a kid, 'Robocop' to me was just good guys and bad guys.

Freddie Kruger, Jason, Michael Myers - they're all our generation. I think the kids wanted some new guys that they could take ownership of and Jigsaw was that guy.

When you sit down to write a film, you direct it in your head. If you are writing a scene, you are watching the scene. And maybe it's different when you are writing a novel because you are thinking of it in terms of being read. But films are only consumed one way - through the eyes and the ears.

It's a weird little anomaly about horror films in that the more money and noise you have, the less scary it gets.

A lot of low-budget genre films you see are horror movies, because horror is the friendliest movie to lack of money.

If you look back at a film like 'Dawn of the Dead' - You can either watch it as a straight-up genre film and have fun with zombies being shot, or you can look at it as a metaphor for consumerism. Or a metaphor for the Vietnam war.

I loved 'The Conjuring' so much. It's really scary.

Once I have a story idea I like it doesn't even matter to me what genre it is, I'm just so happy to have one.

One of the most crucial aspects of a haunted house movie is the fear and disbelief of the characters, because they don't know what's happening to them.

I think repetition is the hardest thing to avoid with sequels, because you've told a story and now you're adding more story to the story.