When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

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.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality; people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.

Tell your kids they are perfect the way they are, but they shouldn't stay where they are forever because growing, testing the limits, and evolving make life better and more fulfilling.

You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.

Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.