The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion.

I have my library separate from the family home, and every room is a different genre. The only room that I can guarantee I've read everything is the horror room.

I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films

I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is the sin of banality and comfort. Those things are in my movies, but also my movies are quite the fruit of somebody who defines himself as an agnostic.

...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.

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.

video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".