Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work.

I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.