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For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.

Guillermo del Toro

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
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
There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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Beautiful Grotesque Happen
I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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Carpenter Film More Others
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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Cute Interesting Nasty
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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Fun Ghost Stories Way
What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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Film Firsts Geek
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
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
I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it’s really great. I don’t like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.
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Horror People Thinking
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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Common Directors Produce
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
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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Broken Hard Thinking Work
It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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Guy Horror Shoes
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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Block Retreat Want
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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Continue Fantastic Liberation Money

For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.

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