video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".

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 like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue

Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined

If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.

We're in three living groups, 'cause even after the world's ended some assholes still can't get along.