People tend to think that big things only happen to big people ... I think that is not true. The small decisions we make every day define who we are and define the world around us. ... But I bet to you there is a decision every day in your life where you affect somebody else.

I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.

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

I have my library separate from the family home, and every room is a different genre. The only room that I can guarantee I've read everything is the horror room.

When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.