If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling.

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.

In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody.

Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.

After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things.

Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.

Just because one of you earns the paycheck doesn't mean that person should lord over how the money is handled.