The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.

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 sky is blue everywhere.

Apply expectations appropriately. Do not assume [all] adults are as grown up and mature as they should be, or appear to be.

Sacrifice is a step beyond convenience.

My, how beautiful is war! its songs, its leisure!

My own thoughts Are my companions.

I like the odd glass of wine, a coffee and a cigarette. As you get older you can't see the wrinkles

As a young boy you gave me whoopings to save my life.

...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

I had big dreams when I was a boy. And I can't say that I never saw a beach house in Malibu in those dreams.

After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.