For me and my films, I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just visual, it's audio as well. It's emotional, and I want you to be engaged with not just the scene but with the characters.

One of the things I learned very early on is you need to cast the kids for the characters you want them to play. They need to be who they are, right? If you want a loud, boisterous kid character, you need to find that kid.

Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like 'The Sixth Sense' or 'The Others,' it's more building up the characters and building up the situation as opposed to just opening with a big action set piece.

If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.

If you come down to it, there's only a handful of worlds that action films live in. You have your car chases, your gun fights, and your fights.

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