As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.

More than ever, movies reveal themselves as healing, as helpful, as encouraging, as escapist - anything that makes someone get through their day in these times. It's the best form of entertainment, and it's still arguably the most inexpensive form of entertainment.

I don't know if my wife left me because of my drinking or I started drinking 'cause my wife left me.

Actors work with their look. I come from the Lon Chaney Sr. school of acting. I'll wear wigs, I'll wear nose pieces, I'll wear green contact lenses in my eyes. I'll do whatever I need to do to create a character.

If you're really special, meaning you're doing something unique and original, it could scare people.

You aren't a true internationalist until you've supplied weapons to kill your own countrymen.

I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.