It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROBut 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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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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I think making small movies reminds you of the effort. When you make big movies, the effort is to fight for freedom. When you make small movies, the effort is making the day, making the budget, and it’s great, too.
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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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As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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I think part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I’d rather deal with restrictions of budget. It’s better to feel free within any budget.
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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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…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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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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There are a lot of period movies where they say, ‘This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.’ And it’s done in like a 1950s or 60s style.
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For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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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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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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When somebody says something I don’t agree with, I say I’d rather not. It comes to the point where that is the strongest form of resistance. As a Mexican, it took me a long while to learn one word in English, “no”. And that is the one word we have in common.
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