I know what I like—I like art—and I like what I know.

I sometimes feel that I'm impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it.

It's as much fun to scare as to be scared.

In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.

Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.

I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.

Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?

We exponents of horror do much better than those Method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make the believable unbelievable.

A man who limits his interests limits his life.

There is nothing more soul-satisfying than the first succulent bite into the juicy frankfurter.

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

Consciousness cannot be glimpsed as though it were something outside yourself, because it is you.

It is fortune not wisdom that rules man's life.

I don't feel I'm very present in each moment. I feel like every moment I'm either thinking about something that's coming down the road or something that's been in the past.

I put everyone in my school on to Nicki Minaj before she blew up. I was obsessed with her and I was like, 'If she's the best female rapper then I've got to be better than her.

I was raised a good little Catholic. What's more theatrical than the ritual of the Catholic church?

I have worked with some great directors.

During my career I’ve enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences.

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.

Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.