With every movie I produce, I learn something. I watch the directors. It's like the relationship you have with your children. I'm there to learn from my daughters. They are the perfect spirits.

There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created.

You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

The idea for me is that if the movie connects with you the way I want it to connect with you, you should be experiencing both the horror and the wonder as a child would. From a child's point of view. When we're kids, brutality registers differently than when we are adults. Because as adults, we get too used to violence.

There is beautiful in the grotesque.