We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

Are we human because we gaze at the stars or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?

In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn't scary.

When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn't do, and a lot of things I only found out I couldn't do by going and doing it. And no-one was watching, and nobody cared.