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.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROWhen 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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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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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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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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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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It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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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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You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you’ve broken – rather than being careful with them in the first place.
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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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I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
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Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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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 part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I’d rather deal with restrictions of budget. It’s better to feel free within any budget.
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You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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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 had gotten to the point where I just didn’t want to perform anymore – I didn’t want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it.
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But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil’s Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.
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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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As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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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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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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There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there’s the super vampires, which are a new breed we’ve created.
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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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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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I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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