Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring.

I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

People don’t follow you because you are nice, they follow you because they believe the place you are taking them is better than the place they are.

When superstitions infect you, it controls your mind.

It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.

I think that life is about growth. You continue to grow and progress, hopefully.

The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.

Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not wound but who heals; who does not condemn but forgives.

There are certain people that you don't have to even work at extracting their inner life. It is just there and they're happy to share it with you.

The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.