I find I'm waking up really early now, just to read. Waking up at ungodly hours. But I try to keep up, religiously. When I was a kid, it used to be a book a day. Then a book a week. Now it's like a book every two weeks. But I read every day.

...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

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

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

You can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I'm going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

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