"Recent monster movies are full of images of big cities being destroyed. In the old monster movies, it was much scarier to have them land in ordinary fishing villages. It's much more frightening to have your house destroyed than a big city."

"Working with and knowing Jeff, he clearly mapped out a path that I could recognize and resonate with and follow, which was carrying a sense of justice and morality and responsibility in all of his projects."

"I think he can relax me a little, because of the way he is and maybe I can give him some energy in the way I am. I don't know, it somehow just works."

"Star Wars, if you go back to its genesis in that very first film, was political. Politics has always played a part in it."

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"The difference between Cronos and The Devil's Backbone is I'm 36 and in Cronos I was 28, and I had now the enormous experience of eight years... but I feel I was better prepared to shoot that movie now. As a filmmaker, I had more tools."

"It's funny cause, y'know, I've never really considered myself a writer. I've considered myself a director who writes stuff for himself to do, and this was just the first one that I got a chance to do. I was very happy that the first film that I produced was one that I directed."

"What the film did successfully was it showcased the talent of a young Kôji Yakusho. Before then, he was often cast as a nice guy or a good citizen... I think the role [in Cure] helped shift the way people saw him as an actor."

"For us it was really the teen comedy first being at the heart of it, and then just being like... what if we took all these characters from a team comedy and just start killing them?"