I think once a Catholic, always a Catholic. You never escape. I still have Catholic guilt. It is in its basis a really powerful religion and a really strong set of beliefs. They permeate my work in many ways.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROIf you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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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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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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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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Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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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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Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
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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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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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…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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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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Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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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 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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