What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify 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 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.

I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen

You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story.