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.

There are two types of producing deals, and I've had both. I've produced over 20 movies now. You are either watching in horror, as the cars take the curve in the grand prix, or you're enjoying it.

For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.

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.