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

What is fantastic for me is that the Romantic movement comes out as a counter balance to everything that has been accumulating since the Age of Reason. I think the downfall of imagination as a genre or as a perception starts with the Age of Reason, which says everything else that came before us, all those superstitions, all those myths, are childish.

Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.

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.

Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, "We love the movie but it's too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.".

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.

I don't want to move over to Beverly Hills. My goal is to make the movies I want to make and support the people I want to support. That's it.