You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring.

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.

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.

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

Imitate the traits of your creator

The gift of new day is divine.

Complete people gaze into the blue sky above, plunge into the center of the earth below, and run freely in the eight directions without even a change of mood.

I do benefits for all religions. ... I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.

You can't throw him back because he doesn't meet the legal size limit.

In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

I don't like being alone. I haven't been alone since I got a boyfriend.

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.

The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.