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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

Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, “We love the movie but it’s too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.”.
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Kids Violence Violent
I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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Carpenter Film More Others
For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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Backbone Devil Neurotic
It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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Guy Horror Shoes
At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes “I’m not my dad” or “I’m not my mom.”
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Dad Kids Mom
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
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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Book Character Kids
I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.
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Important Real Thinking
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
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Power Quiet Thinking
I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.
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Genre New Safe Something
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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Actors Attitude Pantomime
The underground of the city is like what’s underground in people. Beneath the surface, it’s boiling with monsters.
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Cities Monsters People
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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Actor Comfort Lasts Way
Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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Interesting Looks Safe
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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Genre Halloween Horror Independent
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.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Compromise Despair Easy

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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