I had gotten to the point where I just didn't want to perform anymore - I didn't want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it.

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.

Ignorance and virtue suck on the same straw...

To be afraid of sorrow is to be afraid of joy also.

Lost sheep are scattered because the people who are supposed to shepherd them are not aware

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

Let's hook up and just bring fiery death.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

It's amazing what happens when you put your interests out into the universe and make it known what you want.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.