I think Pans Labyrinth is genius.

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

There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it's a little quicker, but the concept is all on television.

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.

Editing is kind of a solitary job.

So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.

When the first movie to show the anger people have about the war is a grade Z zombie movie, that tells you all you need to know about how afraid of ruffling anyone's feathers people in the movie business are today.