On the lower budget pictures, you go overtime more, you're sort of scrambling for the shots and cobbling together more ideas at the end.

A vampire is very easy; you just take a very good-looking actor, put some teeth on them, make them pale, and you're there.

When I was a kid I was really into horror films. I watched every single horror film that came out in the 80s.

When a horror movie is well done, I love it and I put it up in esteem with any other genre.

Number one rule in Hollywood is to maintain relationships with successful people, and you may find yourself involved in some very cool projects.

It's important to continue to change and evolve in the way that the comics change and evolve.

All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.

To turn a human being into a part-canine or lupine creature takes a good deal of artistry and money.

I think American Werewolf in London is the greatest werewolf movie of all time.

You can argue that the Terminator movies reboot their world each time they go back in time, but that doesn't negate the value of Terminator 1 and 2. So I don't really feel that way.

Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.

Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.

The reality is that changes are coming. ... They must come. You must share in bringing them.

Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines.

The physical relationship between CO2 molecules and the atmosphere and the trapping of heat is as well-established as gravity, for God's sakes. It's not some mystery.

I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.

Love is the most powerful four letter word.

True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need.

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

Hope is not a strategy.