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.

If you can be that link to other people that came before you and the ones that come after, then you have to honor that link. If you are doing what somebody else tells you to do and you have success, it's horrible. And if you are doing what other people tell you to do and you fail, it's equally horrible.

I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

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

I always thought what if you took a myth of childhood like the tooth fairy and made it a central scary thing. We did it on Hellboy and we did it on 'Don't be afraid of the dark'.

I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna understand the instincts that are going to inform the story.

for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.