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This may be a surprise to everyone, but here goes: I haven't seen Hostel or any of the Saw movies! You know how you see an ad for a movie and get intrigued and think, "Hmm, I want to see that!" Well, that didn't happen when I saw the ads for these films.

I do want to see Dead Silence, however. I like creepy dolls and puppets, a lot.

At home, I will watch horror like The Howling, oh, maybe some Paul Naschy movies, maybe some Mad Doctor of Blood Island... These are all real horror films, but they all have a certain amount of fantasy cushioning that softens them a little. Interview with the Vampire, same thing. It's horror, but very fantasy-oriented and that allows me to be a little bit detached.

The question of whether entertainment can harm us and help us: Well, I look at it this way. It is not absolutely, endlessly harmful. But neither is it totally inert. You might say that we watch what we watch because it affects us. So while neatly sidestepping the issue of whether we need more, or less, censorship, I can say that we might as well be aware of what we watch and what it is saying to us. These are modern myths and they present us with views of reality; interpretations of reality. They are one of society's teachers and before we make a movie, I believe we should think about the ideas and views we are presenting.