I love the creation of these things — I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.

I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it's really great. I don't like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.

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

You have to believe the magic to see it.

If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.

Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the movie industry: So is a video game.