"People say, ‘Oh that’s such an ‘indie film’,’ and that terrified me. I didn’t want to make a generic 'indie' film, I wanted it to feel like something bigger." -Charlie McDowell

"But what I learned, and music was the teacher…is that there's a life inside each of those people. There's a movie that plays inside each of their heads that will disappear when they go." -Michael Rossato-Bennett

"And it had occurred to me that the last line of the last word I uttered on that entire shoot was: 'sodomy.'"

"We talked a lot about the madness of the night. That was something I kept in mind a lot, how could this music speak to all the madness that erupts on Purge night."

"And we were on the way to eat some sandwiches, and we got a call, like, ten minutes after the pitch. And the producer called us into his office, and we sat down, and he's like, "So, they said 'yes'."

"For a typical emergency department, one of these patients over one shift would be a big deal. Here, you’d have six of them pretty much every hour. Right off the bat I was visually overtaken by it all."

"I wanted to make a film where you were emotionally moved at the end, you felt satisfied but then you walked outside afterwards and thought 'what the hell happened?'" -Paul Haggis (Director)

"It's not like when you go see a vampire movie and it's scary for an hour and a half and then you go about your life. You know, hopefully the themes in this movie continue to make you think." -Ti West (Director)