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.

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.

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.

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.

The beauty of today may not be realised until it becomes tomorrow’s memory

Every day is a new day to hope, dream and try again.

As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat.

Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference.

My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.

If you are not dead, you are not done.

Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are also working for the public good.

You don't understand me. I'm a teenager. I've got problems!

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

Libertarianism is the enemy of all racism.