I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window.

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.

I didn't like it when he looked at me like that. I could never escape the feeling that i was being compared to someone else.

Sometimes, if you have faith in people they'll surprise you. Mom and Dad taught me that. Risk is the price of believing most people want to be good.

Quality - in its classic Greek sense - how to live with grace and intelligence with bravery and mercy.

Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion - as long as it agrees with ours.

In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.

Banish Air from Air Divide Light if you dare

At one point that's all I cared about, being a pro athlete. But I realized I wasn't athletic enough.

It's worrying to think more than half the world's population lacks internet access and therefore lacks an equal opportunity to improve their lives.

I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we." This is the sorcery of literature.

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.