When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight – it’s faster in a way.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROI 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.
More Guillermo del Toro Quotes
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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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People think you’re like The Godfather, waiting for scripts to come in. But, you’re hustling, you’re desperate, you’re panicked and you’re horrified. The movie you think you’re going to do next, you don’t do. The movie you think you’re never going to do, you make.
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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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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 is beautiful in the grotesque.
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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’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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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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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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The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
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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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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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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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I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.
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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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