I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.

When I stage a violent scene, I try for it to serve a purpose. I do love those things, the makeup effects. But I love them more with the monsters. I never was much of a gore guy. I've always enjoyed just creating monsters.

I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.

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