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.

You cannot dictate what people find funny, what people find attractive, or what people find scary. There is not a norm.

I have a very promiscuous relationship with all my objects.

It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.

I think that most of the monsters I dream of, I dreamt of as a child.

I would have killed to do 'Beauty And The Beast' at Warners, which went away. I would have killed to do 'The Witches' at Warners that went away. God knows there are many, many of them. All I can do is diligently do the screenplay, diligently do the design work, deliver a budget, and then await a decision.

I believe that we will elevate and differentiate the discourse of cinema the more we discuss image creation in specific terms.

Every project that you write about or read about, it goes through years of hard work. We write a screenplay; we design. Then you submit those and the budget, and it's out of your hands.

'Crimson' is written in a very particular style, and it's very precise in the way it graduates into a gothic romance. The souls that will connect with it will connect deeply.

The reason there's a 'Hellboy 2' is not because the studios were passionate about the first one; it's because the numbers made sense.