I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.

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.

...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.

Every season has an end~for a harvest to begin. Embrace the process!

Life is brighter on the lighter side.

In hatred as in love we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe we graft into our very soul.

When you look at good governance, you also need to look at how you approach the subject.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource.

Latin guys dance. American guys don't dance. That's a big difference.

It's amazing that it's considered revolutionary to wear my hair the way it grows out of my head.