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.
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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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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It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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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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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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If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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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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Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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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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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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I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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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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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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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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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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