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.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROWhat 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.
More Guillermo del Toro Quotes
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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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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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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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…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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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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Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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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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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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You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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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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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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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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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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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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