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 TOROIt’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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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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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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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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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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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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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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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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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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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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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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I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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I think once a Catholic, always a Catholic. You never escape. I still have Catholic guilt. It is in its basis a really powerful religion and a really strong set of beliefs. They permeate my work in many ways.
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