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.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROI only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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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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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 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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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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The underground of the city is like what’s underground in people. Beneath the surface, it’s boiling with monsters.
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I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
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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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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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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 directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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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 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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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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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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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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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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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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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 love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.
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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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You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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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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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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In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
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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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