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" I think we live in a culture that is actually hedging all of it towards comfort and immediacy, things that scare me. All the things that they sell us as a way of life scare me. "

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

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" I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage. "

" When I was a child, I was raised Catholic. Somewhere, I didn't fit with the saints and holy men. I discovered the monsters - in Boris Karloff, I saw a beautiful, innocent creature in a state of grace, sacrificed by sins he did not commit. "

" I love to travel, anywhere in the world. Wherever it is... India... Tibet... wherever. I'll go anywhere. "

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" I want to live in a space that I designed, that is for me. "

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" I'm having a lot of fun on Twitter, tweeting about books. "

" I love what many of my contemporaries are doing, especially people like Terry Gilliam, David Cronenberg, P. T. Anderson, and Alfonso Cuaron. "

" For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot. "

" I love the entire 'Constantine' mythology, the 'Dead Man' mythology, the Alex Holland 'Swamp Thing' mythology. "

" Well I think effects are tools. "

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

" There's nothing more political than fantasy. "

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" Everything I do, I do it with the hope that people will watch it more than twice. Whether it's 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Pacific Rim' or the opening of 'The Simpsons,' I do it with that hope. "

" 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. "

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

" I truly try to create beauty and reflection and all of that as conscientiously and judiciously and minutely as I can. "

" 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. "

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

" Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection. "

" I think love is the greatest force in the universe. It's shapeless like water. It only takes the shape of things it becomes. "

" Making a film is like raising a child. You cannot raise a child to be liked by everyone. You raise a child to excel, and you teach the child to be true to his own nature. There will be people who'll dislike your child because he or she is who they are, and there will be people who'll love your child immensely for the very same reason. "

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

" There is beauty and humility in imperfection. "

" 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. "

" 'Hellboy 1' was such a huge, huge overperformer on Blu-ray and ancillary markets. It was one of the first movies on Blu-ray; it has multiple editions. All the ancillary markets overperformed everywhere. And the second one did good on all ancillary markets, which now do not exist. "

" If you want to know how to handle a crew, it's great to be part of a crew. "

" I'm a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedias. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly obsessed with anatomy, and I thought I had trichinosis, an aneurism, jaundice! And then an encyclopedia of art. "

" I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue. "

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" I like monsters, and when the monster is a superhero, it's a byproduct. Like Hellboy, the Hulk, Man-Thing, Swamp Thing, Sandman, Constantine, Demon, Dr. Strange, Spectre, Deadman. Those are the superheroes I followed as a kid religiously. "