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.

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

If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.

What is fantastic for me is that the Romantic movement comes out as a counter balance to everything that has been accumulating since the Age of Reason. I think the downfall of imagination as a genre or as a perception starts with the Age of Reason, which says everything else that came before us, all those superstitions, all those myths, are childish.

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

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made

If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.