I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROI’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’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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There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there’s the super vampires, which are a new breed we’ve created.
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For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.
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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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Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, “We love the movie but it’s too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.”.
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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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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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Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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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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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 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 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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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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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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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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