You have to believe the magic to see it.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROI’m a movement Nazi. It used to be my way before. Now, in the last three projects. I found a way to let the actors find their comfort and still find the precision in the show. It’s a change in me.
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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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You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you’ve broken – rather than being careful with them in the first place.
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Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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I think damage to the eye or damage to the teeth is one of the most universally cringing things you can do in a movie and these are very fragile sounds.
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I’m a movement Nazi. It used to be my way before. Now, in the last three projects. I found a way to let the actors find their comfort and still find the precision in the show. It’s a change in me.
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In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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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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We’re in three living groups, ’cause even after the world’s ended some assholes still can’t get along.
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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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It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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When I stage a violent scene, I try for it to serve a purpose. I do love those things, the makeup effects. But I love them more with the monsters. I never was much of a gore guy. I’ve always enjoyed just creating monsters.
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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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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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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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