In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

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.

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

You are a child of humanity and every day is your precious birthday.

She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?

I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.

We're very good friends, we have a very honest relationship. He keeps me honest, I keep him honest. He's an incredible actor and when you have an actor like Denzel action becomes drama.

I either delegate something, I dump it, or I deal with it.

I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.

Collect stimulus, draw them. Focus, find out as much as you can. Stimulate yourself.

As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing.

The Court should never be influenced by the weather of the day but inevitably they will be influenced by the climate of the era.

We have a great regard for old age when it is bottled.