I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring.

The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

Don't neglect the gifts in you. Power reserved is function suspended. The day you choose to switch on your passion is the day you will see your dunamis power in you. Be inspired!

Long time ago I had this thing called hope, but like I said it was long ago

In the room full of individuals for whom I hold feelings of resentment about, Who might be the first I would converse with, when I am about to bite the dust?

All colours are arbitrary.

All I do is go to the movies.

Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be.

Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.