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.

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.

Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones?'

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it.

Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.

My life is pretty much an open book.

'Nuclear' is nothing but trouble. Do you say 'new-clear' or do you say 'nuke-you-ler'? Whoever invented that word had obviously never studied the human mouth. We don't have enough muscles in our face to make that group of letters come out smoothly. The word is missing a middle syllable, for cryin' out loud.

You know, I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking.

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

Even if it's not always the best markup, what are Facebook and Twitter? They're web standards with some scripts. They may not validate, but they're still CSS layouts and simple markup, and that's great!

The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.

There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible.

I became an actor when I was 22.

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

To keep the body in good health is a duty€¦ otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

It's hard to think of anything that is more socially beneficial than raising children well. It needs to be valued and respected, I believe by everyone in public life regardless of your political party.

I appreciate and enjoy mathematics and science and all that side of things. I definitely have that side of me even though I'm not by any means an expert, but I love reading about physics and math and that kind of stuff. I wish I knew more than I did. I mean, I read books written for laymen, not textbooks or anything.

When we read a book, we have a blurry image that's kind of physical but blurry. But we have an emotional image also. We have an emotional connection to the character.

My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.

People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe.

It hasn't been until the last couple years that I've started playing close to my age. But it's fun playing the younger roles because it takes you back to the teen years.

I remember when I first came out on tour, it was Greg Norman and Nick Price. We forget how big Norman was, what a presence he was. I remember one of my first tournaments, Greg threw an orange peel down on the ground and some fan ran over and grabbed it. 'This is Greg Norman's orange peel!'

I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent.

The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.