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I'm a lapsed altar boy.
Well I think effects are tools
Well I think effects are tools.
There is beautiful in the grotesque.
Producing is great because you learn.
Survival often feels like an indignity.
You have to believe the magic to see it.
Monsters are evangelical creatures for me.
Movies that look safe are less interesting.
There is beauty and humility in imperfection.
In Mexico, you're close to death all the time.
Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection.
Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.
I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films
I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films.
I was directing before I knew it was called that.
My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.
It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.
Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.
You need to adjust your compass to an obtainable goal.
I'd love to come back as the most annoying ghost ever.
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
To me, movies are books. They are texts to be consulted.
I'm having a lot of fun on Twitter, tweeting about books.
I want to live in a space that I designed, that is for me.
If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer.
I have a very promiscuous relationship with all my objects.
I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget.
I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!'
What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.
It's never hard to cast kids; it's only ever hard to direct them.
The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion.
I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others.
It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.
I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror
There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy.
...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.
I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror.
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
I think that most of the monsters I dream of, I dreamt of as a child.
You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership.
Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined
Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined.
Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made