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Guillermo del Toro

I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I’ll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.
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Character House Needs
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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Guy Nice Questions Tough
What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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Film Firsts Geek
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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Common Directors Produce
Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.
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Powerful Unseen Way
You can’t explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.
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Impossible Retrospect Void
If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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Directors Intimate Partnership
You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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Giving People World
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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Abyss Genius Mystery
I had gotten to the point where I just didn’t want to perform anymore – I didn’t want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it.
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Block Retreat Want
You 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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Continue Fantastic Liberation Money
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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Compromise Despair Easy
I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it’s really great. I don’t like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.
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Horror People Thinking
The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
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Desire Harboring Since Being
We’re in three living groups, ’cause even after the world’s ended some assholes still can’t get along.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Groups Three World
As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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Cutting Directors Finals

There is beautiful in the grotesque.

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