It's funny, I worked with a lot of directors in the many years that I've been doing this, and generally when you hear a director yelling on set, everybody scatters in the other direction.

I grew up really loving horror movies and genre movies. I was a big fan of Universal Monsters movies, read Famous Monsters magazine. I built monster models and creature effects...

I love the expression 'makes your skin crawl,' because when you have that sensation while you're watching something, it really does.

I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.

As a movie fan, my number one goal is to continue to learn from what I've done and make special effects as precise and clean as they can be.

When a movie succeeds, it takes me to another world where I don't think about it and I'm just immersed.

If the actor points a fake gun and pulls the trigger, and you have to fall to your knees, you really do have to sell it. Otherwise, it takes the viewer out of the moment.

At my house I have a full-size time machine that I’ve built over a couple of years... I love looking at people’s faces when they walk into my office. They’re literally astounded.

Call on Jesus Christ in any circumstance.

He saw the pleasure you took from your job every day of his life, and THAT was what he wanted.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

The journey of love has been rather a lacerating, if well-worth-it, journey.

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

I was performing from the age of three.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes.

And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.