The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring.

I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen?

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...

I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.

The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction.

This has been a wonderful life, absolutely terrific. There are very few things that I would go back and do differently, if I had that control.

I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice.

The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.

There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.