- I am not a Satanist. I am a Supernaturalist!
- I know my films reflect the fear of the end of the world or the end of my world.
- I'd see multicolored streaks in the atmosphere. And I didn't do drugs. Sometimes I could see sounds. They were different colors. I could taste color and touch sound.
- I love performers from horror classics; I can't help myself. I've been lucky in that I've been given the opportunity to work with actors from landmark horror films. The trend needs to continue with me...and the possibilities are endless. Jamie Lee Curtis, can you hear me?
- I'm just this guy from New Jersey who has odd visions. I do have an obsession with replicating childhood nightmares, fears, anxieties. With my films, I'm trying to construct some kind of nightmare where we experience the protagonist's damnation.
- It's ambient filmmaking...told through a series of dreams, flashbacks and hallucinations. I was going for something completely out-there...not censoring myself...allowing my imagination to run wild.
- I think I pulled the images from the dark pit of my childhood, my nightmares. Growing up, I had so many nightmares and was always wondering if what was happening was actually true. Or was it a dream? I didn't use drugs. I know...that's a shock. If anything, I was repressed and probably needed drugs to open me up. Everything I kept bottled up in the day would explode out of me at night. All of the negative debris of the day...it would all come popping up, so strongly in my nightmares.
- I guess it has something to do with how I grew up, my background being Italian American and having two very religious grandmothers. But, really...I just think organized religion is a very scary thing. It gives me a feeling of paranoia. One group against another, thinking the other one is wrong and they are better, holier. Religion causes wars. It has a dark force that can't be denied. Also, as you know, my cousin, Alfred Sole, directed "Alice, Sweet Alice," the infamous Catholic slasher. I saw it at a very early age and it is forever embedded in my psyche.
- In 1975, I was 5. In 83, I was 13. So, I got to see all these great horror movies, the golden age of true horror, while I was a little kid growing up. It was an incredible time to be a horror fanatic. I was like the boy in Romero's Creepshow. My mother actually took me to see these 70's, early 80's movies because she knew how much I loved them. She enjoyed horror films too, actually. I'd cut out Ads from the newspaper, for movies like...It Lives Again, Prophecy, Phantasm, Invasion of The Body Snatchers and just...stare at them. I was in love with all of this stuff from early on.
- I starting writing it right around the end of 1999, when there was all that end-of-the-world talk going on. I wanted to harness that feeling...that we all could be predestined for a horrible, violent death. The idea that the threat of violence can strike at any moment.
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