Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.

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

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

If we have a choice in how we die, I would say that's a privilege. I think we have a sort of prudish approach to death in the West, though certainly not in Mexico. In Mexico, it's a little bit freer. We're not so precious about it.

The movies that I do are in love with cinema, and I try to show that I am in love with cinema. I want them to be, in other ways, drinking from other sources.

When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.

There are men who bloom in chaos. You call them heroes or villains, depending on which side wins the war, but until the battle call they are but normal men who long for action, who lust for the opportunity to throw off the routine of their normal lives like a cocoon and come into their own. They sense a destiny larger than themselves, but only when structures collapse around them do these men become warriors.