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

The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.

What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.

Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined

The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.

I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.

There are times when you are in despair, because in order not to betray who you are, you don't compromise, you don't make movies that would be very lucrative or prestigious or easily understood. And yet I stay attached to the most uncanny premises. It's never been easy.