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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

Guillermo del Toro

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
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 John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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Carpenter Film More Others
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 think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it’s really great. I don’t like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.
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Horror People Thinking
The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
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Desire Harboring Since Being
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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Impossible Retrospect Void
What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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Film Firsts Geek
In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
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People Real Thinking
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
I thought the tooth fairy was a very creepy concept as a kid. “Put your tooth under the pillow.” I was like “Why does someone want my teeth?”.
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Creepy Kids Teeth
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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Common Directors Produce
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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DNA Library Profound
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
There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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Beautiful Grotesque Happen
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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