When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.

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.

Life is divided into three parts: what was, what is and what shall be. Of these three periods, the present is short, the future is doubtful and the past alone is certain.

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.

Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we would never get out of bed.

We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.

I'm not a sentimental guy.

To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

Even today you can look through almost any consumer or professional publication and find headlines that possess not a single one of the necessary qualities, such as self-interest, news, or curiosity.

When you translate a dream into reality, it's never a full implementation. It is easier to dream than to do.

Be different, be altruistic. Be strange, work for others in response to their harm. Raise eyebrows, be generous without agenda.

I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.