"I guess a little bit of delusion can go a long way." — Panos Cosmatos

My goal from the very beginning was to make very visually lush, juicy films that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always been part of my modus operandi.

I love to choose the right actors. It's kind of a pleasure to work with them and watch them imbue your concepts that you write.

I think the first music I ever heard was Abba. I took my mother's cassette recorder and went into the bushes to listen to Abba when I was four or five-years-old.

Well, I think if you're telling a story, a three act structure will just naturally emerge out of it. But I also love it when a film doesn't feel like it's anchored too rigidly to that structure and you feel like anything could happen.

I taught myself filmmaking on my own.

Well I don't think of myself as like a horror or science fiction filmmaker. I just think of myself as a filmmaker.

The idea of creating a quote-unquote 'retro' world isn't all that appealing to me by itself.

My mother died in 1997 and I spiralled into this self-destructive vortex of trying to annihilate my consciousness. I was afraid to face the grief of losing her, because she was somebody I loved more than anybody else in the world.

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I guess a little bit of delusion can go a long way.