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

“...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.”

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”

“So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a Western version of The Count Of Monte Cristo where the count has a clockwork hand. I have a screenplay called Mephisto's Bridge about a Faustian deal with the devil. I love them all.”

“What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.”

“I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.”

“Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.”