As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROThere’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 love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.
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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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You can’t explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.
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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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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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I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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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 am the nice adversary, the guy that’s going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.
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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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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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We’re in three living groups, ’cause even after the world’s ended some assholes still can’t get along.
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I had gotten to the point where I just didn’t want to perform anymore – I didn’t want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it.
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The fairies in the ancient notion of fairies, they are not positive and cute and twinkly.They can be incredibly nasty or they can be incredibly benign. It’s a really interesting mythology when you dig into it.
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