"Well I think effects are tools."

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"I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm."

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

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"I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm."

"In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old."

"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."

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

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"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."

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

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

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"My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture."

"Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina."

"It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not."

"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."

"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."

"My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good."

"I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise."

"I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival."

"I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film."

"I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked."