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

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.

If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in that house. My father would have said "Shut up and get to your room." So I thought the only sanctioned tyranny in the world is parenthood and everybody goes "Yeah." It's a dictatorship - parenthood.

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.

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue