I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things

Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story.

I think part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I'd rather deal with restrictions of budget. It's better to feel free within any budget.

For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.

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

The only thing you can do as an artist is to come to the world, see what no one is doing, and leave behind one or two things that wouldn’t have happened without you.

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