For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made

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.

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.

I myself have been in therapy. Repeatedly.

What we expect, that we find.

The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly

How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?

One of the first things which a physician says to his patient is, ~Let me see your tongue.~ A spiritual advisor might often do the same.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

I like being organized and super particular.

Love what you do. Enjoy listening to people. It can be hard work, but the potential for helping people is tremendous.