I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
GUILLERMO DEL TOROI 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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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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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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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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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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If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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I think once a Catholic, always a Catholic. You never escape. I still have Catholic guilt. It is in its basis a really powerful religion and a really strong set of beliefs. They permeate my work in many ways.
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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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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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I’m a movement Nazi. It used to be my way before. Now, in the last three projects. I found a way to let the actors find their comfort and still find the precision in the show. It’s a change in me.
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When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight – it’s faster in a way.
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I’m the freaky version of that superhero who says, wherever there is injustice, I shall be there. Whenever there is a difficult project, I’d like to be there.
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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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…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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When somebody says something I don’t agree with, I say I’d rather not. It comes to the point where that is the strongest form of resistance. As a Mexican, it took me a long while to learn one word in English, “no”. And that is the one word we have in common.
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Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
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