I'm the freaky version of that superhero who says, wherever there is injustice, I shall be there. Whenever there is a difficult project, I'd like to be there.

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.

Without women, humanity will be history.

We feel our lives are worth living after we discover something worth dying for.

You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life.

In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent.

The secret of the Christian's passion is simple: Everything we do in life we do it as to the Lord and not to men.

God's peace is joy resting. His joy is peace dancing.

We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.

The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.

Dance as if no one's watching, love as if it's never going to hurt.

All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.