In a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond.

You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.

: There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence.

Normally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made.

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

Well I think effects are tools

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.