I'm always fearful of something happening to people I love. That doesn't go away.

I always wanted to find a way to apply my acting in a big mad monster movie where I was transforming into this scary entity.

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

I'm always fearful of something happening to people I love. That doesn't go away.

Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation.

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.

My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of blood or are you going to drink a glass of water?' I think what he was trying to say, interesting coming from my blood father, is sometimes there are people in your family that can be toxic.