For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.

I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.

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

You have to believe the magic to see it.

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.

We're in three living groups, 'cause even after the world's ended some assholes still can't get along.

My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.