When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership.

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.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Life is too short to chase perfection, yet too long to be satisfied with mediocrity.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

The reward of suffering is experience

The gap between the rich and the poor is wider in the United States than it is in any of the other industrialized nations.

Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.

They say I look like a different ethnicity, and nobody's been recognizing me.

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.

Frustration is a bad experience. What you have to stress is the satisfaction.

I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world.