To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects.

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.

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

A road often travelled has heavy traffic and you take more time to reach the destination.

But people had forgotten there was a day in the not too distant past when they’d not seen or heard of bombings, and suicide vests, and snipers. Alicia, though, had not forgotten.

When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won’t take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!

Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.

It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

I feel more comfortable with my clothes off than on!

One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.