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.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROThe point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
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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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I had gotten to the point where I just didn’t want to perform anymore – I didn’t want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it.
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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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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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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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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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I am the nice adversary, the guy that’s going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.
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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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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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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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I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.
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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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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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