I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.

When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.