You have to believe the magic to see it.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROGhosts 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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But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil’s Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.
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Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
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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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You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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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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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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