Alex Kurtzman

"The thing that I loved so much about the monsters is that the assumption is that theyre broken and that fixing them no longer makes them a monster so they have to stay that way. And if you want to write something sort of complicated thats about kind of the nature of us all having a monster inside of us, I mean, I think thats why the monsters have endured. Theyre all weird reflections of aspects of our personalities. I cant really think of anything Id rather be doing than that."

"I think, about a lot of these monsters is that there are these very central, basic, human emotions that you can talk about when you talk about these monsters. You can talk about Dracula’s longing for love, you can talk about the Mummy’s longing for love. So as messed up as they may be in terms of their behavior, and they are monsters, there always has to be a rooting and an understandable idea behind why they are who they are."