Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

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.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God's personal attributes.

A cup of tea would restore my normality.

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

A very friendly boom, like a pair of gleeful handclaps.

When you want a nation, that's called nationalism... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation.

Think positive girl, or the world ends.

Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you.