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'Frankenstein' is a work rich in possible meanings, so the horror-show interpretation is as valid as any.

Frankenstein's actually interesting; he's kind of like a zombie.

I began to pick apart our knowledge of Frankenstein and discovered that the public's idea of this myth comes from a million different places... I became committed to recontextualizing it all so it all worked in one story.

'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms.

'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.

You know honestly I think there's a Dracula, a Wolf Man, and a Frankenstein's Monster in all of us. They are sides of our own character so that's why I think we can relate to them in terms of a 'I know how that feels' kind of thing.

Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.

I hadn't seen 'Bride of Frankenstein' until high school or maybe even later than that. It's really one of the great movie experiences where you think you know what it's going to be, but it's so much weirder and so much better than anything you could've imagined. It's so full of these striking, powerful images.

I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin.

This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!