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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

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
We’re in three living groups, ’cause even after the world’s ended some assholes still can’t get along.
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Groups Three World
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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Book Character Kids
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
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Power Quiet Thinking
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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Deals Restriction 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
You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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Giving People World
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
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
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
…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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Love Maternal might Spiritual
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
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
Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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Interesting Looks Safe
Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
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Heart Knows Uncomplicated
I think making small movies reminds you of the effort. When you make big movies, the effort is to fight for freedom. When you make small movies, the effort is making the day, making the budget, and it’s great, too.
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Effort Fighting Thinking

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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