As a movie fan, my number one goal is to continue to learn from what I've done and make special effects as precise and clean as they can be.

I grew up really loving horror movies and genre movies. I was a big fan of Universal Monsters movies, read Famous Monsters magazine. I built monster models and creature effects...

I love the expression 'makes your skin crawl,' because when you have that sensation while you're watching something, it really does.

I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.

It's funny, I worked with a lot of directors in the many years that I've been doing this, and generally when you hear a director yelling on set, everybody scatters in the other direction.

When a movie succeeds, it takes me to another world where I don't think about it and I'm just immersed.

If the actor points a fake gun and pulls the trigger, and you have to fall to your knees, you really do have to sell it. Otherwise, it takes the viewer out of the moment.

At my house I have a full-size time machine that I’ve built over a couple of years... I love looking at people’s faces when they walk into my office. They’re literally astounded.

People talk and people listen, but very few care enough to help.

We each have our belssings and our curses. In the end it makes us equals.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.

Giving is not a strategy. It's a way of life.

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.

Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law.

Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly.

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender