It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

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.

The impossible is possible in your mind and in your dreams.

I don't think with any book you get used to people falling in love with the story. It's been incredible just to realize your books are being read. It's a pretty amazing feeling.

I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.

I've seen people twitter in haiku only.

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

The truth is more important to me than anything - my personal wealth or health or any of these things. I think that it's not so difficult for me to say what I'm saying.

The shepherd will deny the diseased lamb in fear of the flock.

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

For me, personally, I think drugs are sacred and should be used for work. That's what I believe in. Drugs have a real shamanistic value. I can handle drugs. I've never had a problem.

We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way.