Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -

There are a lot of period movies where they say, 'This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.' And it's done in like a 1950s or 60s style.

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

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.

I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things

You have to believe the magic to see it.

I love the creation of these things — I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.