I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit." (Guardian interview 2006)

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.

There is no wrong answer. Even so, it is easy to receive wrong results, simply by asking the wrong question.

Respect is that great spirit of good, which creates the beautiful space giving all souls the simple room to breathe.

Contacting a government office on a weekend is like phoning the Pope on Easter morning.

People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.

I would love do a guest spot on Castle because Nathan Fillion is so dreamy, and he and I are friends. And I think we could have a lot of fun.

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

If I wrote you a love letter, would you write back?

Tolerance is forced on people in London.

The blessing of heaven will not accompany the preaching that is done in a worldly manner.

To interact means being among others, and taking others into account in a way, to act.