I love the expression 'makes your skin crawl,' because when you have that sensation while you're watching something, it really does.

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 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.

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.

Marx's writings still have something to teach us about capitalism. They have little or nothing to teach us about any alternatives to it. Anyone who had read them knows that.

O ye that dwell on earth! The religion of God is for love and unity; make it not the cause of enmity or dissension.

Do not let fancy outrun your means.

The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning - and ready to pay its full price.

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

If God is love, then God has no stepchildren to love.

You know, I've made my money. If no one buys my album, cool. It's fine. I've got a house, and I've got dogs that I love. I don't need anything else.

I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.

The whole fruit is already present in the seed.