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

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.

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.

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

I'm a lapsed altar boy.

I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit.

When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.

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

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

I was directing before I knew it was called that.

I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films.

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.

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

It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.

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

They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do.

Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined.

I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old.

Well I think effects are tools.

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.

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.

There is beauty and humility in imperfection.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.

The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to be audacious, to take chances. It has to consider the probability that it would be wrong in a good many cases and take the consequences later.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!

Marriage is no substitute for political experience.

It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.

My main interest is the problem of the singularity. If we can't understand what happened at the singularity we came out of, then we don't seem to have any understanding of the laws of particle physics. I'd be very happy just to understand the last singularity and leave the other ones to future generations.

Oh and Oh is a tennis term . . . . Its a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.

I don't go digital. I was never good with technology. I didn't have a cellphone until I moved to New York. My gallery was like, 'What? How are we supposed to contact you?'

If you want to explore things you haven't explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.

I am a pacifist.

Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of the country's wealth. But having so much in the hands of so few can't be good for America.

I think even if I did the research mentioned above, it would be a total waste of money because if those people don't believe in the testimonials, they won't believe in the research at all. They would say that I made it all up. So why waste money?

Failure is not about insecurity its about lack of execution.

I want to be surprised by what people do, I don't want to work with people who need to be told what to do. I want people to show me what they've got.

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

Europe has shown how government can be organised in a network. Its institutions both compete and co-operate and include a directly elected parliament that does not appoint the executive, independent judiciaries and a complex set of relationships between the Commission, the Council of Ministers and the Parliament.

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

My own fashion sense has been influenced by 'We'll Take Manhattan.' It's gotten a little better.

Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.

What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.