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.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROFor Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight – it’s faster in a way.
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You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you’ve broken – rather than being careful with them in the first place.
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If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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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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Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
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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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I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I’ll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.
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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 think damage to the eye or damage to the teeth is one of the most universally cringing things you can do in a movie and these are very fragile sounds.
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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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As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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I’m the freaky version of that superhero who says, wherever there is injustice, I shall be there. Whenever there is a difficult project, I’d like to be there.
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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 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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