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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

Guillermo del Toro

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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Powerful Strong Thinking
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
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
What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.
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DNA Library Profound
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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Common Directors Produce
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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Compromise Despair Easy
…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
I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.
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Genre New Safe Something
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
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
If you’re doing a big spectacle film, you’ve got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you’ve got to be responsible only to your storytelling.
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Film Responsible Storytelling
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
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Power Quiet Thinking
I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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Country Different People Produce
Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
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Drinking London People
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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Important Real Thinking
I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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Carpenter Film More Others

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