The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

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.

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

Her power was a wrenching thing, starless black and sorrow, but my magic was something more...it was hope.

Tough times are opportunities to prove to yourself that your mind is tougher than all challenges.

I got given a pair of Christmas socks with penguins on. They know you're obviously not going to wear them. I think they do it just to annoy you, to be honest.

I'm tired and I don't know what day it is.

Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit.

When economic modernizations come in, say goodbye to wildlife.

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.