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Guillermo del Toro

I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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Common Directors Produce
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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Boundaries Crosses Horror
Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
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Heart Knows Uncomplicated
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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Abyss Genius Mystery
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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Actors Attitude Pantomime
The underground of the city is like what’s underground in people. Beneath the surface, it’s boiling with monsters.
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Cities Monsters People
I thought the tooth fairy was a very creepy concept as a kid. “Put your tooth under the pillow.” I was like “Why does someone want my teeth?”.
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Creepy Kids Teeth
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
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
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Power Quiet Thinking
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
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
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
I’m a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I’d love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.
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Book Character Kids
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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Country People Vivid Way
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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Common Country Long People
There are a lot of period movies where they say, ‘This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.’ And it’s done in like a 1950s or 60s style.
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Done Portraits Style

We’re in three living groups, ’cause even after the world’s ended some assholes still can’t get along.

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