The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in that house. My father would have said "Shut up and get to your room." So I thought the only sanctioned tyranny in the world is parenthood and everybody goes "Yeah." It's a dictatorship - parenthood.

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

You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.

The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.