I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.

What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night.

As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from and disconnected from the world of deal making.

I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.

I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms.

I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies.

I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the opening credits, and I had to tell her that that was the happiest she was going to be for the next two hours.

I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.

I've got deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys. Journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I've been elected by God to do.

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

Some people think that horror films are some sort of second class filmmaking, and the only way to bypass that thinking is being proud of the fact that we do it.

Though I respect hugely the effort and the care and the beauty of games, I want to be working with people who want to create the 'War & Peace' of games, the 'Citizen Kane' of games, and not just be warming up George Romero.

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

Everybody is a book of blood wherever were opened were red.

Im a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die its a major offence.

You just have to trust your own madness.

The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.

Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.

Nobody cares, work harder.

Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJs with the same haircut.

I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.

Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work.

I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

There is no quick fix. At the end of the day, you still have to do the work to maintain your weight. It can't be a diet. You have to change your life.

I mangle phrases constantly. The other day I was chatting with my boyfriend and I said to him, 'He really sold him under the bus.' And he said, 'I think you meant 'threw him under the bus,' or 'sold him up the river.'

Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.

'J'eet jet?' is still the standard way for a Pittsburgher to ask if you're ready for a meal, but the meal itself is no longer limited to chipped ham and an Iron City beer.

Unlike novels with a hero or two heroines, in 'One Amazing Thing,' all the characters tell stories they've never told anyone before, so all the voices become equally important.

My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.

'Miss Jackson' is about something that actually happened to me when I was younger. I hadn't really talked about it, and I felt that if I didn't, I would keep thinking about it; it would drive me crazy.

If 'Fargo' is about anything, it's American madness.

Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.

We made 'Shutterbugs' and 'The Illusionators' to play live at UCB.

As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.