There is beautiful in the grotesque.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROYou 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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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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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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It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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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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Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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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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…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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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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You can’t explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.
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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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I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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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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You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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