You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

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.

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.

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

While ignorance might be bliss, apathy can be deadly.

Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

A lot of people come to Los Angeles and think that they're going to be famous, just like that.

I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.

The nature of life is to face us with ourselves, until we are able to handle the problems that knocked us into the dirt yesterday.

This is teamwork; this is what it's all about.

Any time you can have your logo or your name on a shoe, growing up that's a dream come true.

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination.

Before a man can bind the enemy, he must know there is nothing binding him.