I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.

When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.

The idea for me is that if the movie connects with you the way I want it to connect with you, you should be experiencing both the horror and the wonder as a child would. From a child's point of view. When we're kids, brutality registers differently than when we are adults. Because as adults, we get too used to violence.

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

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

I love the idea of creating a sort of nuanced portrait of kids that they're not all perfect. They're kind of misfits but not in a picturesque, hip way, they're really, really kids that are not entirely great.

Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.