In life, you got two objectives. Make money and make a change.

For the sun to shine, you gotta have some rain. You need the damn rain.

I have to hurt other people in order to get what I want, I don’t have a choice but to. In life, you gotta do the right things for the wrong reasons. Or the wrong things for the right reasons.

I'd rather try and fail than quit and not do shit.

All my life I wanted to be accepted.

The pen is my true salvation. God is not.

He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

Unfortunately, I also found out the hard way in my youth. But I guess that's how most learning is done, isn't it?

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

Beloved let us love one another: for love is of God and every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.

I want to do something that nobody has done before me. And I want to do it in such a way that nobody will forget me for it.

They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job.

Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it's incredible and surprising.

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.