The movies that I do are in love with cinema, and I try to show that I am in love with cinema. I want them to be, in other ways, drinking from other sources.

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'.

In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.

I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.

I really believe that in the larger sense, not only today but at all times, you only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

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

You have to believe the magic to see it.