The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.

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.

A starry night moon looks at you with admiration because in her eyes you are a star.

Rich people have small TVs, small cars, but big libraries.

Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility.

There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be.

The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future

I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.

I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

If I go as hard as I can in practice, make sure it's a lot harder than than a fight, then the fight's going to be easy.

Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.