The underground of the city is like what’s underground in people. Beneath the surface, it’s boiling with monsters.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROI’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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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There’s no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story.
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I think once a Catholic, always a Catholic. You never escape. I still have Catholic guilt. It is in its basis a really powerful religion and a really strong set of beliefs. They permeate my work in many ways.
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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 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 like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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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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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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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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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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…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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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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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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For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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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 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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Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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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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It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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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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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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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
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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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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.
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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.
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