Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, "We love the movie but it's too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.".

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.

Everything she knew about him rushed through her mind like a tidal wave.

We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours.

The seeds of happiness can grow from one thought, one idea, one simple change in focus.

Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances it makes chances.

You’re the reason I breathe

When the sun comes up, I have morals again.

Sarah Palin is Latina. Pay-leen. She has an infant and a grandkid the same age. Latina!

Jews ate the English nation to its bones.

The way I talk is bizarre.

Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.