You need to adjust your compass to an obtainable goal.

...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.

There are a lot of period movies where they say, 'This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.' And it's done in like a 1950s or 60s style.

I always thought what if you took a myth of childhood like the tooth fairy and made it a central scary thing. We did it on Hellboy and we did it on 'Don't be afraid of the dark'.

: There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence.

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

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.