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

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.

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

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.

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

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