I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

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.

It is during our failures that we discover our true desire for success.

Gianni created the whole thing. I came later and helped him.

...a good poem contains both meaning and music

Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.

We are all here, on this earth for only one go around. And everyone thinks their purpose is to just find their passion. But perhaps our purpose is to find what other people need.

Ego and conditionings are created by mind, which is a myth.

We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.

All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.

We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.

When we went crazy, and we did go crazy on residential real estate, it set things in motion that just - the dominoes started toppling.