You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

I think Pans Labyrinth is genius.

My generation remembered going to the movies as an event. We would see these things, we would bring them home, and we would think about them for years because it would take a long time before they would go on television where you could re-experience the fun that you had when you watched them.

One of the things I've always tried to do is to inject myself as much as possible into the movie, so I feel like it's mine.

Movies get found in the editing room. The movie that you make is not always necessarily the movie that comes out of the editing room. The trick is to perfect the movie that you have and make it the best version of what you've shot, regardless of what the intent may have been.

The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.

Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.