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I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.

Guillermo del Toro

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.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Character House Needs
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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Eye Sound Thinking
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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Important Real Thinking
Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
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Drinking London People
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
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
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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Film Responsible Storytelling
For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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Backbone Devil Neurotic
You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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Giving People World
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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Dad Kids Mom
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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Devil Ghost Stories Thinking
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
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
If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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Directors Intimate Partnership
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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Kids Violence Violent
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

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