There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of.

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

When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.

I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna understand the instincts that are going to inform the story.

When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.

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

At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes "I'm not my dad" or "I'm not my mom."