In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.

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.

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 think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it's really great. I don't like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.

I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror

You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things