My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.

There is beautiful in the grotesque.

As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.

What is fantastic for me is that the Romantic movement comes out as a counter balance to everything that has been accumulating since the Age of Reason. I think the downfall of imagination as a genre or as a perception starts with the Age of Reason, which says everything else that came before us, all those superstitions, all those myths, are childish.

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

You need to adjust your compass to an obtainable goal.

If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.