When I was nine, I played the demon king in "Cinderella" and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.

The monster was the best friend I ever had.

My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.

It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.

To write your dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another's dreams

We have created a world we don’t like, don’t understand and don’t trust, and we are too frightened to try to change it.

Why’d you call, boy? What did you want from me?""The company of a friend, I think.""Always a cheap treat.

Real life was curious enough without the embellishments of fiction.

I wanted to be your Hero

the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

You've got to keep moving, keep creating.

The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates the notion of extra-terrestrial life.

The linear, mechanistic view of the world which pervades orthodox economics is simply not capable of capturing the richness and complexity of the rhythms and fluctuations of developed economies.