“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.

Indigo child, you hid secret under graves, picked at the lamb stuck between teeth, felt around for monsters we once reaped. But the monster turned out to be free.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

But the problem is to make the soul into a monster

The public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage.

To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?

Not all the monsters have fangs.

I can see every monster as they come in.

When I was a child, I used to fear monsters under the bed. I have since learned that most monsters are found within. And they are always worth fighting.