I think that during the shoot, you should never be there, unless something goes really wrong and as producer, you're responsible. The sign you did your job right is if you are not there.

I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make the industry poorer, it makes the landscape of cinema poorer, in America. The impossibility to get a good release on a really good European, Latin American, Asian movie is a tragedy.

Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.

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

I think that is the ultimate cowardice, when someone makes your choices for you in an institutional way. And you just say, "Well, I have no other option."

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