When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

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.

Life is not what happens to you but what you think about it.

Indeed, we should be trying to reach out to those who don’t know Jesus Christ, which is impossible in an atmosphere of hostility.

Politics is the gizzard of society full of gut and gravel.

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.

Girls countin on me to be there like missin rubbers.

Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.

I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families.

I appreciate every team that wants me and I take on every challenge.