The Internet is one of the biggest advances ever in our world.

I joke and I say, 'I need to go back to make a supernatural horror film just to so that I can make a movie that's grounded again.'

What the Internet has done is made it easier to stay in touch with people, and social networking has helped me career-wise by helping me keep in touch with my fans.

I guess, deep down, there's a dark side to us. I guess that's why movie fans really love the revenge drama. We like to go into dark movie theaters and fantasize.

I'm terrified of the supernatural things, which is why I'm very grateful that I don't see things like that. Because if I did see things of the paranormal persuasion, I don't think I'd be able to continue making scary movies.

I don't think action alone is enough to sustain a film franchise. There are tons of action movies out there that come and go and people don't care about.

When I was a kid, my grandfather used to watch Bollywood films. There's a lot of colour and vibrancy to the Indian films.

People used to always complain that horror films have no stories, that it's all just about kills and stuff like that.

I use myself as a measuring yardstick, and so if I come up with an idea that really scares me, then I'd like to think that people out there would feel the same way as well.

If I have to point to something specific with the way I move my camera, I love to do it with a wide lens. I like to show you as much of the space as I can, even if I'm following a character.

That's the problem: when you make movies, I find that I never have time to go to the movies and enjoy movies like I used to because I'm so movied out, right? I'm so filmed out that the last thing that I wanna do is, with the little spare time that I have, is stick in a dark room and watch more stuff on the screen.

The size of the budget doesn't make that much of a difference because the kind of issues I have on a low budget film I have on a big budget film as well, but they're just much bigger.

I hope people will like 'The Conjuring 2' because I think it is a very natural and organic progression of the first movie.

'Insidious' is independent. It's like the 'Clerks' of horror films, you know?

I love Carpenter, I love Craven - these are all the classics - the Romeros of the world, but I think the biggest influence on me as a storyteller and as a filmmaker is actually Steven Spielberg. I love that even though Steven isn't known for being a horror director, he started out his career making scary movies.

I love a ghost story. I think they affect me more than other people that are much more skeptical than I am. I think that it's good that I do buy into them to some degree.

'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred, but fascinated, me with puppets and dolls, clowns and stuff like that.

I've always loved action movies. The first films I fell in love with were 'Star Wars' and Steven Spielberg films.

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

I like the 'Twilight' films.

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.

I cannot state enough how important post-production is for the success of a horror movie. You bring so much to it with the way you edit it, the way it is sound-designed, and the way the music works with it.

It's good to be finally able to afford food for a change. It's good to move on from potatoes and tin soup.

I think, when you're a director, you get sucked into your project whether you like it or not, right?