The only true immortality is when you don't care if you die. The moment you stop giving credence to gain is when you become invulnerable to pain.

I love the creation of these things — I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.

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

I find I'm waking up really early now, just to read. Waking up at ungodly hours. But I try to keep up, religiously. When I was a kid, it used to be a book a day. Then a book a week. Now it's like a book every two weeks. But I read every day.

When somebody says something I don't agree with, I say I'd rather not. It comes to the point where that is the strongest form of resistance. As a Mexican, it took me a long while to learn one word in English, "no". And that is the one word we have in common.

Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.

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.