Director

I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage.

Making a film is like raising a child. You cannot raise a child to be liked by everyone. You raise a child to excel, and you teach the child to be true to his own nature. There will be people who'll dislike your child because he or she is who they are, and there will be people who'll love your child immensely for the very same reason.

I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage.

Making a film is like raising a child. You cannot raise a child to be liked by everyone. You raise a child to excel, and you teach the child to be true to his own nature. There will be people who'll dislike your child because he or she is who they are, and there will be people who'll love your child immensely for the very same reason.

I think when we wake up in the morning, we can choose between fear and love. Every morning. And every morning, if you choose one, that doesn't define you until the end... The way you end your story is important. It's important that we choose love over fear, because love is the answer.

As a producer, I learned not to declare anything about a movie I'm not directing.

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!'

I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.

I truly try to create beauty and reflection and all of that as conscientiously and judiciously and minutely as I can.

You cannot convince a Buddhist to become a Protestant any more than you can convince a person who embraces realism as the highest form of art that fantasy is an equally important manifestation. It's impossible.

I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great.

There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created.

I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth.

I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own.

I'm having a lot of fun on Twitter, tweeting about books.

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.

I'm a lapsed altar boy.

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others.

I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.