I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

What is fantastic for me is that the Romantic movement comes out as a counter balance to everything that has been accumulating since the Age of Reason. I think the downfall of imagination as a genre or as a perception starts with the Age of Reason, which says everything else that came before us, all those superstitions, all those myths, are childish.

I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.

For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.

Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.