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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.

Guillermo del Toro

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
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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Actor Comfort Lasts Way
I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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Country Different People Produce
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
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
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
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
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
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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Guy Makeup Trying
Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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Interesting Looks Safe
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
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
The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
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Desire Harboring Since Being
What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.
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DNA Library Profound
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
In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
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People Real Thinking

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.

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