I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is the sin of banality and comfort. Those things are in my movies, but also my movies are quite the fruit of somebody who defines himself as an agnostic.

I think that during the shoot, you should never be there, unless something goes really wrong and as producer, you're responsible. The sign you did your job right is if you are not there.

If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.

I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.

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