When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership.

I find I'm waking up really early now, just to read. Waking up at ungodly hours. But I try to keep up, religiously. When I was a kid, it used to be a book a day. Then a book a week. Now it's like a book every two weeks. But I read every day.

When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.

If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer.

I love monsters. If I go to a church, I'm more interested in the gargoyles than the saints. I really don't care much about the idea of normal - that's very abstract to me. I think that perfection is practically unattainable but imperfection is right at hand. So that's why I love monsters: because they represent a side of us we should actually embrace and celebrate.

It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.

When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership.