I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.

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.

Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.

But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.

Ive worked with some of the most inspiring and genuinely nice people.

Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.

Standing before a camera isn't intimidating. It's more comfortable for me. I enjoy it now. I'm more aware of what to do.

All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.

My Christian faith is at the very heart of who I am.

If you start thinking about stats it can get too complicated and you just have to go out there and play your game.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.