I believe that the physical effect, the physical set, whenever you can, is ten times better than the digital effect.

When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

In a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond.

You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.

I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.

You have to believe the magic to see it.

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.

It was a rural upbringing by the seaside. A real quiet place surrounded by fields. I had to travel into town for school and stuff like that.

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

We all need people who will help us look at situations from a different perspective.

It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am

But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.

You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.

It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do.

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

When there is an issue, I approach it and hit it head on. I speak the truth. If I do something wrong, then I own it.