What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

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.

At the end to death I must go, Finishing a real tragic and funny show.

A societal revolution is politically organic in nature. It can't be engineered. It has to be evolved.

Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.

Peace must begin within self before there can come action or self application in a way to bring peace-even in thine own household, in thine own vicinity, in thine own state or nation.

I love you so much when i see you i get butterflies

There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.

Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.

He who loves not lives not.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.