I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.

Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story.

The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion.

You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.

If we have a choice in how we die, I would say that's a privilege. I think we have a sort of prudish approach to death in the West, though certainly not in Mexico. In Mexico, it's a little bit freer. We're not so precious about it.

The fairies in the ancient notion of fairies, they are not positive and cute and twinkly.They can be incredibly nasty or they can be incredibly benign. It's a really interesting mythology when you dig into it.

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.