When I was a kid I was really into horror films. I watched every single horror film that came out in the 80s.

A vampire is very easy; you just take a very good-looking actor, put some teeth on them, make them pale, and you're there.

When a horror movie is well done, I love it and I put it up in esteem with any other genre.

Number one rule in Hollywood is to maintain relationships with successful people, and you may find yourself involved in some very cool projects.

It's important to continue to change and evolve in the way that the comics change and evolve.

All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.

To turn a human being into a part-canine or lupine creature takes a good deal of artistry and money.

I think American Werewolf in London is the greatest werewolf movie of all time.

You can argue that the Terminator movies reboot their world each time they go back in time, but that doesn't negate the value of Terminator 1 and 2. So I don't really feel that way.

Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.

On the lower budget pictures, you go overtime more, you're sort of scrambling for the shots and cobbling together more ideas at the end.

For we think back through our mothers if we are women.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.

I think sometimes the way to preserve the magic of a book is to throw it away - meaning, not to cling to the way a book does its magic but to find a cinematic equivalent.

Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.

I feel like people didn't understand where I was about to go. And a lot of people still don't.

We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.

The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.

Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.