I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROAt some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes “I’m not my dad” or “I’m not my mom.”
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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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I think making small movies reminds you of the effort. When you make big movies, the effort is to fight for freedom. When you make small movies, the effort is making the day, making the budget, and it’s great, too.
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I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I’ll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.
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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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Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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When somebody says something I don’t agree with, I say I’d rather not. It comes to the point where that is the strongest form of resistance. As a Mexican, it took me a long while to learn one word in English, “no”. And that is the one word we have in common.
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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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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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The underground of the city is like what’s underground in people. Beneath the surface, it’s boiling with monsters.
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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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You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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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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If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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