Normally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made.

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 it's not on the table, don't eat it off the floor.

That receiver was as wide open as Annabel Chong.

How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home.

I've always thought that as long as I did the right things and had the right intentions, everything would fall into place.

There are also kinds of water that cause death, as they run through harmful juices in the soil and become poisonous.

It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

Trust Emmett to find the joke in the destruction of my life.

The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.