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

They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others

You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there’s definitely a maturity about not seeking validation from everyone, every single time.

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.

I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.