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.

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

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

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

The idea for me is that if the movie connects with you the way I want it to connect with you, you should be experiencing both the horror and the wonder as a child would. From a child's point of view. When we're kids, brutality registers differently than when we are adults. Because as adults, we get too used to violence.

When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.

For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.