I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.
In fairy tales, monsters exist to be a manifestation of something that we need to understand, not only a problem we need to overcome, but also they need to represent, much like angels represent the be...
Watching a movie for the first time is a flirt. Rewatching it, is a date.
The discovery of the horror tale at an early age was fortuitous for me. This sort of tale serves, in many ways, the very same purpose as fairy tales did in our childhood. It operates as a theater of t...
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.
The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit." (Guardian interview 2006)
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.
Success is fucking up on your own terms.
For in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.
So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a Western version of The Count Of Monte Cristo where the count has a clockwork hand. I h...