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'.

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

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

What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

As a child that was disenfranchised from everything, and that was in a world that was the wrong size, run by the wrong people, the wrong morale and the wrong rules, I felt completely outside of that, and I wanted some measure of control, and the measure of control I found was through fear.

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue