I have "fat-guy syndrome." If they give me $50 million to make a movie, I'll try to make it look like it cost a hundred. If they give me $60 million, I'll try to make it look like it cost $120.

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.

The fact is...I'm in love with you, and I have been for some time.

A lot of ultramarathoners are soloists. They're single and live lives off the grid.

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.

I should have liked to come across a large community of pines, which had never been invaded by the lumbering army.

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

I choose to be more prepared than I'm expected to be.

I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.

There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.

Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.