I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it.

There's incredible effect in being either loved or hated, but knowing that, either way, you have penetrated the mind and have altered it; that is a very pleasurable feeling.

I like the early comic book characters more than the new ones.

I wanted to make a horror film about beauty.

You ask actors what they would like to do, and you constantly keep them engaged. You want their engagement, input, and sensibilities. It's that intimate collaboration that is actually directing. I don't like the mechanicalness or coldness; I like the intimacy. It's like we are creating a child together.

My initial idea was I wanted to make it a horror film, very much. At times I do enter that world.

I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.