I make movies on gritty topics like crime, the underworld, and horror. I don't make movies with good-looking people in good-looking locales.

Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.

Even here in the Underworld, everybody - even monsters - needed a little attention once in a while

The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.

"In the underworld, reality itself has elastic properties and is capable of being stretched into different definitions

THE WOMAN WAS GOING TO KILL HIM, and not because she was stronger and more vicious than he was. Which, if he thought about it, she was. He'd never ripped a man's throat out with his teeth, and he was damned impressed that Gwen had. She'd made the Lords of the Underworld look like marshmallows.

What I like about the 'Underworld' thing is that it's a mix of cool genres as well as creating its own message.