If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer.

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.

this was not the end of the world, actually it was the world.

There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.

Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere.Try to commit an act of writingand they will jump overboard to get away.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Trains are all the ways you miss each other-wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.

Set your goals to paper and you are halfway there!

Indeed, only one Supreme Court justice in history, one Horace Lurton, nominated by President [John] Taft, had more federal appeals court experience [than Samuel Alito].

The big turn in the late 90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. I was fairly sure I was going to be an actor for the rest of my life, which I think calmed me down.

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.