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.

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.

I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.

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

: 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.

If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in that house. My father would have said "Shut up and get to your room." So I thought the only sanctioned tyranny in the world is parenthood and everybody goes "Yeah." It's a dictatorship - parenthood.

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