Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.

Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.

I used to get headaches in 3D movies, and I didn't want the movie to give people headaches.

I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

Cinema Paradiso' is a fantastic film, I love that.

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

But, like all happiness, it did not last long.

And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real

I think that those wrestlers, those women and men that go in the ring are not protected. I don't think anybody is ever looking out for them and I think that they are used badly.

In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.