For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROIf 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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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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You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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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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The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
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What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.
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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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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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If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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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 love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.
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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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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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The underground of the city is like what’s underground in people. Beneath the surface, it’s boiling with monsters.
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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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I am the nice adversary, the guy that’s going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.
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