“I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you’ve seen is just the tip of the creature’s tail.”

I don’t write any kind of sequel or remake.

In the grand scheme of nature, I believe that it is very natural that animals eat animals, and that humans eat animals. It is only in the last couple of decades that meat-processing factories have come to rise, and I believe we should take time to reflect on that reality.

From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.

My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre.

I don’t intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.

We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.

Every monster was a man first.

Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.

When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

I wanted the monster back and that was plainly wrong.

It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality

The Loch Ness monster doesn’t exist either. Loch Ness is just not big enough to hide a thirty foot amphibian or reptile for hundreds of years.