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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If you’re doing a big spectacle film, you’ve got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you’ve got to be responsible only to your storytelling.
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The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
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I think making small movies reminds you of the effort. When you make big movies, the effort is to fight for freedom. When you make small movies, the effort is making the day, making the budget, and it’s great, too.
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What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.
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There’s nothing that defines who you are more than boundaries, whether you cross them or not, in every aspect of your life, and horror is a really great boundary.
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At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes “I’m not my dad” or “I’m not my mom.”
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The fairies in the ancient notion of fairies, they are not positive and cute and twinkly.They can be incredibly nasty or they can be incredibly benign. It’s a really interesting mythology when you dig into it.
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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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Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.
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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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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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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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If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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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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Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
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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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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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I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don’t see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.
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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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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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I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.
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