I think that is the ultimate cowardice, when someone makes your choices for you in an institutional way. And you just say, "Well, I have no other option."

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.

Men love pleasure.

A good friend is someone who can love you like a dog and talk to you like a human.

I always loved him more after he had scolded me than I did at any other time.

My mom would have different fragrances for different times of the year. They were a part of her identity. I don't remember the specific ones she used, but I remember the bottles.

If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.

I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a political scientist, but I'm a fairly intuitive person.

Tax what you burn not what you earn.

Don't wonder whether you have a call to go. Have you had a distinct call from Christ to stay at home?

Pronounce your limitations vigorously enough and they're yours.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.