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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.

Guillermo del Toro

I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it’s really great. I don’t like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.
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Horror People Thinking
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
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
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 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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Guy Nice Questions Tough
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
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Power Quiet Thinking
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
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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Genre Halloween Horror Independent
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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Abyss Genius Mystery
I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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Carpenter Film More Others
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 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
For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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Backbone Devil Neurotic
If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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Directors Intimate Partnership
I’m the freaky version of that superhero who says, wherever there is injustice, I shall be there. Whenever there is a difficult project, I’d like to be there.
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Injustice Projects Superhero

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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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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