It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.

When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.

Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make the industry poorer, it makes the landscape of cinema poorer, in America. The impossibility to get a good release on a really good European, Latin American, Asian movie is a tragedy.

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.

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