 For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made. |
| 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 think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen. |
| I was directing before I knew it was called that. |
| In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 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. |
| Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters. |
| I'm a lapsed altar boy. |
| Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined. |
| 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. |
| I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror. |
| For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot. |
| What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek. |
| I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others. |
| When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly. |
| It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism. |
| Well I think effects are tools. |
