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

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.