Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROIts a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
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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 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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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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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 would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.
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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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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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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 is beautiful in the grotesque.
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There are a lot of period movies where they say, ‘This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.’ And it’s done in like a 1950s or 60s style.
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In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
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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 only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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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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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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