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

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.

When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.

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.

I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things