In the case of 'Shape Of Water,' I want it to feel like a song. I wanted people to come out of the movie humming the movie.

I want to live in a space that I designed, that is for me.

Every Sunday on Channel 6 in Guadalajara, where I lived, they dedicated most every Sunday to black-and-white horror films and sci-fi. So I watched them. I watched 'Tarantula.' I watched 'The Monolith Monsters.' I watched all the Universal library.

When you start with Super 8, you are everything. You're the DP, the sound man, the effects guy. And what I started understanding, by working for other people, is that the best type of director is someone who rose through the ranks.

To me, the thing love and cinema have in common is that they are about seeing. The greatest act of love you can give to anyone is to see them exactly as they are. That's the greatest act of love because you wash away imperfections.

Love is love. And it's much better than hatred and fear.

Monsters are evangelical creatures for me.

A lot of Mexican Catholic dogma, the way it's taught, it's about existing in a state of grace, which I found impossible to reconcile with the much darker view of the world and myself, even as a child.

I hope to continue doing TV, and I think that what I've learned on 'The Strain' will come in handy.

I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.

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

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.

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

There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created.

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 was directing before I knew it was called that.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.