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Guillermo del Toro

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
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
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 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
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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Block Retreat Want
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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Common Directors Produce
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
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 like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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Carpenter Film More Others
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
Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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Interesting Looks Safe
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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Causes Fighting Stuff
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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Cute Interesting Nasty
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
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
If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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Directors Intimate Partnership

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