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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.

Guillermo del Toro

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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Important Real Thinking
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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Broken Hard Thinking Work
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
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Power Quiet Thinking
Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
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Heart Knows Uncomplicated
If 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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Film Responsible Storytelling
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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Actor Comfort Lasts Way
What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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Film Firsts Geek
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 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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Powerful Strong Thinking
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’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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Injustice Projects Superhero
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
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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Genre Halloween Horror Independent
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
We’re in three living groups, ’cause even after the world’s ended some assholes still can’t get along.
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Groups Three World
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

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