Anybody Who Knows Me Knows I Would

I've Always Liked Monster Movies And I've Always Been Fascinated By - Again, Growing Up In A Culture Where Death Was Looked Upon As A Dark Subject And Living So Close To Mexico Where You See The Day Of The Dead With The Skeletons And It's All Humor And Music And Dancing And A Celebration Of Life In A Way. That Always Felt More Of A Positive Approach To Things. I Think I Always Responded To That More Than This Dark, Unspoken Cloud In The Environment I Grew Up In.

When We Were Growing Up And Saw A Ray Harryhausen Movie, We Were Interested In How It Was Done. But Thank God We Got To Go Through The Magic Of Seeing It Before We Knew How It Was Done. You Were Able To Get This Beautiful, Pure, Visceral Response To Something Without Knowing Too Much About It.

I Think The Thing Is That You're Very Affected By Your Early Life, And I Think That If You Ever Had That Feeling Of Outsider, Or Loneliness Or Whatever, It Just Doesn't Leave You. You Can Be Happy And Successful, Whatever, But I Think That Thing Stays Inside Of You. It Doesn't Ever Really Leave You. You Kind Of Always Will Have That.

My Parents Suffered From That Ideal Of A Perfect Nuclear Family. They Found That A Difficult Pressure, I Think.

My Diagnosis," He Said "for Better Or Worse, Is That Your Son Is The Result Of An Old Pharaoh's Curse.