Movies that look safe are less interesting.

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.

If you have ever prayed for something and received what you wanted, you engaged in Cosmic Ordering.

Sadness was a very heavy thing.

Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

I thought of myself as a global citizen.

There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.

If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.

I have no worries myself, nor do I exude or possess within my living stratus any reason why someone should worry [on] my behalf.

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

You don't get to be old bein' no fool.