I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring.

I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

Dreams largerthan ourselves we killed, not wantingour smallness measured against them."(poem: Having Taken the Necessary Precautions)

I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.

Giving and receiving are different expressions of the same flow of energy in the universe.

History is the science of people.

The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor is less dangerous than the dancing master.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

Strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.

Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.

Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.

Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act.