The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.

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

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

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.