If the actor points a fake gun and pulls the trigger, and you have to fall to your knees, you really do have to sell it. Otherwise, it takes the viewer out of the moment.

I grew up really loving horror movies and genre movies. I was a big fan of Universal Monsters movies, read Famous Monsters magazine. I built monster models and creature effects...

I love the expression 'makes your skin crawl,' because when you have that sensation while you're watching something, it really does.

I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.

It's funny, I worked with a lot of directors in the many years that I've been doing this, and generally when you hear a director yelling on set, everybody scatters in the other direction.

As a movie fan, my number one goal is to continue to learn from what I've done and make special effects as precise and clean as they can be.

When a movie succeeds, it takes me to another world where I don't think about it and I'm just immersed.

At my house I have a full-size time machine that I’ve built over a couple of years... I love looking at people’s faces when they walk into my office. They’re literally astounded.

...you shouldn’t hate something you don’t know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.

A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now you are present, awake.

Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

People have been unhappy for a long time about the two-party system.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

When the cat's away, chances are he's been run over.

I would advise people occasionally to take the media on, but only when you know it's a manufactured product and not a news interview.