For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROWe’re in three living groups, ’cause even after the world’s ended some assholes still can’t get along.
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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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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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People think you’re like The Godfather, waiting for scripts to come in. But, you’re hustling, you’re desperate, you’re panicked and you’re horrified. The movie you think you’re going to do next, you don’t do. The movie you think you’re never going to do, you make.
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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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I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.
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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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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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The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
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Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, “We love the movie but it’s too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.”.
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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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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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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 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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