Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.

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.

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

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.

Americans are very enthusiastic. We have a new generation of moviegoers who love great horror films. I am a very imaginative man, and for me, it's easy to speak with my dark side. I have very beautiful, interesting nightmares.