You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.

Normally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made.

"What makes a man a man?" a friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.

I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates.

I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.