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.”.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROYou give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
More Guillermo del Toro Quotes
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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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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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I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.
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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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If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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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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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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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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The underground of the city is like what’s underground in people. Beneath the surface, it’s boiling with monsters.
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I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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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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It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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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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People think you’re like The Godfather, waiting for scripts to come in. But, you’re hustling, you’re desperate, you’re panicked and you’re horrified. The movie you think you’re going to do next, you don’t do. The movie you think you’re never going to do, you make.
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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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