When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.

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.

Movies that look safe are less interesting.

What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it's really great. I don't like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.

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