Because I used to play a lot of sport, I've always been in decent enough shape. When I used to get asked to do a bit of body work before a photo shoot I'd lie and say, 'Yeah, I'm going to the gym.' I literally never did anything.

It's not like I cleaned up with girls. I always looked young and I was very small; I hated being 'cute.'

When I think of sex symbols, I think of posters my two sisters had on their bedroom walls.

Christian Grey - he isn't a real person. He's a superhero. A myth. He's like Bigfoot! He's unbelievable. He's unattainable. There's no actor in the world who could live up to that.

I don't like myself without a beard.

I'd love to be a filmmaker and look back and be like, 'Ah, man, we were part of that whole '80s video nasty thing!'

I think before 'Saw' came along, there really wasn't a movie franchise that actually went out there and said, 'We're going to come out with one every year during Halloween and make that our trademark.'

Whatever it is that makes your movie unique is something you should embrace.

To some degree, this re-release is to let people remember what the first 'Saw' film was, and let them know there was a time in the 'Saw' history where it wasn't all about blood and traps.

I try to keep the number of projects I'm involved in down to one per year.

I think I'm a very sentimental person. Conscious or not, that's what draws me to the kind of films I want to make.

I've made one action movie. But nobody saw it, so I guess that doesn't count for most people.

Geoff Johns is super talented, super smart. Part of what got me excited about the Aquaman character is his re-envisioning of Aquaman, the character, with 'The New 52.'

So many movies get made, and so many go to VOD, which is a market I admire.

There's something very cool about that indie spirit that I try to hang on to even now with the bigger films that I'm working on.

I love my genre films, but I think when I get older, the way I tell it will be very different to how I told it when I was in my mid-twenties, which is how old I was when I made the first 'Saw.'

I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come a long way.' In terms of a filmmaker, I feel like my filmmaking language has really matured.

People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.

The stuff I'm designing, I want my action scenes to be intense.

There's two aspects of film crafting that I'm very strict about, and that's how I move my camera and where I cut the film.

You can never have too much good blessing.

'Saw' was good and bad. It was good in that it gave me a career start, but it was also negative in that it really marginalized me as a filmmaker.

I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary.

I'm a student of cinema in general, not just of one particular genre. So it was very important to me and to my soul to go out and do something different.