When I stage a violent scene, I try for it to serve a purpose. I do love those things, the makeup effects. But I love them more with the monsters. I never was much of a gore guy. I've always enjoyed just creating monsters.

I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.

I think damage to the eye or damage to the teeth is one of the most universally cringing things you can do in a movie and these are very fragile sounds.

The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.

And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

If we have a choice in how we die, I would say that's a privilege. I think we have a sort of prudish approach to death in the West, though certainly not in Mexico. In Mexico, it's a little bit freer. We're not so precious about it.