If you can be that link to other people that came before you and the ones that come after, then you have to honor that link. If you are doing what somebody else tells you to do and you have success, it's horrible. And if you are doing what other people tell you to do and you fail, it's equally horrible.

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

I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.

There is beautiful in the grotesque.

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

I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. That no matter what budget you're doing, you should be dreaming bigger than the budget you have, and then it's a matter of reigning it in to the reality. You try to make things count.

: There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence.