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It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.

Guillermo del Toro

Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.
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Powerful Unseen Way
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
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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Abyss Genius Mystery
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 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
I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue
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Actors Attitude Pantomime
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
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
I thought the tooth fairy was a very creepy concept as a kid. “Put your tooth under the pillow.” I was like “Why does someone want my teeth?”.
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Creepy Kids Teeth
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
There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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Beautiful Grotesque Happen
There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there’s the super vampires, which are a new breed we’ve created.
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Ghouls Super Two Vampire
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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Done Portraits Style
Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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Interesting Looks Safe
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
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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Boundaries Crosses Horror

It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.

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