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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.

Guillermo del Toro

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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Boundaries Crosses Horror
Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
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Heart Knows Uncomplicated
There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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Beautiful Grotesque Happen
You 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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Continue Fantastic Liberation Money
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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People Thinking Waiting
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 only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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Common Directors Produce
If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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Directors Intimate Partnership
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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Powerful Unseen Way
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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Guy Makeup Trying
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
Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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Interesting Looks Safe
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
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 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.
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Powerful Strong Thinking
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

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