The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.

I don't try to define the cosmos, I know it's unknowable, but I can understand my place in the world and my place in the universe through a mixture of Taoism, Catholicism, Zen or whatever I have at hand.

I have "fat-guy syndrome." If they give me $50 million to make a movie, I'll try to make it look like it cost a hundred. If they give me $60 million, I'll try to make it look like it cost $120.

Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.

I'm the freaky version of that superhero who says, wherever there is injustice, I shall be there. Whenever there is a difficult project, I'd like to be there.

For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.

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