Producing is great because you learn.

Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic cave. We naturally believe ourselves clever and wise, so advanced, and those who came before us so naïve and simple...when all we truly do is echo the order of the universe, as it guides us.

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

I love monsters. If I go to a church, I'm more interested in the gargoyles than the saints. I really don't care much about the idea of normal - that's very abstract to me. I think that perfection is practically unattainable but imperfection is right at hand. So that's why I love monsters: because they represent a side of us we should actually embrace and celebrate.

Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.

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

I believe that the physical effect, the physical set, whenever you can, is ten times better than the digital effect.