We’re in three living groups, ’cause even after the world’s ended some assholes still can’t get along.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROYou can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I’m going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.
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I think damage to the eye or damage to the teeth is one of the most universally cringing things you can do in a movie and these are very fragile sounds.
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I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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I think part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I’d rather deal with restrictions of budget. It’s better to feel free within any budget.
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I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
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There are times when you are in despair, because in order not to betray who you are, you don’t compromise, you don’t make movies that would be very lucrative or prestigious or easily understood. And yet I stay attached to the most uncanny premises. It’s never been easy.
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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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When I stage a violent scene, I try for it to serve a purpose. I do love those things, the makeup effects. But I love them more with the monsters. I never was much of a gore guy. I’ve always enjoyed just creating monsters.
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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you’ve broken – rather than being careful with them in the first place.
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Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
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For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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I am the nice adversary, the guy that’s going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.
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I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue
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The underground of the city is like what’s underground in people. Beneath the surface, it’s boiling with monsters.
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