I Never Really Got Nightmares From Movies.

I Remember Early In My Career With Disney, Which Was A Very Strange Time In The Company - There Were A Couple Of Executives Who Were Very Supportive Of Me And Kind Of Let Me Do My Own Thing.

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

When I Was A Kid I Always Wanted To Be A Mad Scientist. I Don't Know... A Regular Scientist Just Was No One.

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.

People Told Me I Couldn't Kill Nicholson, So I Cast Him In Two Roles And Killed Him Off Twice.