I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROThere 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 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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It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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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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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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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 love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.
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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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In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
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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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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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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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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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…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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