For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROYou 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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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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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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I thought the tooth fairy was a very creepy concept as a kid. “Put your tooth under the pillow.” I was like “Why does someone want my teeth?”.
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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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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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If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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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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We’re in three living groups, ’cause even after the world’s ended some assholes still can’t get along.
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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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It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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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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I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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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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