I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.
I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.
For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror.
In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... If it's too loud, you're too old.
I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others.
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.
It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.
I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget.
I hope to continue doing TV, and I think that what I've learned on 'The Strain' will come in handy.
To me, movies are books. They are texts to be consulted.
Love is love. And it's much better than hatred and fear.
If you want to know how to handle a crew, it's great to be part of a crew.
I want to live in a space that I designed, that is for me.
In the case of 'Shape Of Water,' I want it to feel like a song. I wanted people to come out of the movie humming the movie.
I love monsters the way people worship holy images. To me, they really connect in a very fundamental way to my identity.
I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage.
I love the entire 'Constantine' mythology, the 'Dead Man' mythology, the Alex Holland 'Swamp Thing' mythology.
I love to travel, anywhere in the world. Wherever it is... India... Tibet... Wherever. I'll go anywhere.
I saw a martyr in the Wolf Man, who is the very moving essence of outsiderness, with which I identified fully.
I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films.
I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.
I think love is the greatest force in the universe. It's shapeless like water. It only takes the shape of things it becomes.
I think that evil is a spiritual engine in our world, our lives, our universe, that functions in order to create good.
I think that most of the monsters I dream of, I dreamt of as a child.
I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!'
I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit.
