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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror.

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

I was directing before I knew it was called that.

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'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.

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.

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