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

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.

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 think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.

I believe that every human has a finite amount of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.

Self confidence is greatest tool for success.

The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges.

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

I am no longer in love, but I still have my jealousy.

The Norfolk landscape sends a shiver through my soul.

You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make it survive. That's what makes the difference