People think you’re like The Godfather, waiting for scripts to come in. But, you’re hustling, you’re desperate, you’re panicked and you’re horrified. The movie you think you’re going to do next, you don’t do. The movie you think you’re never going to do, you make.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROThe fairies in the ancient notion of fairies, they are not positive and cute and twinkly.They can be incredibly nasty or they can be incredibly benign. It’s a really interesting mythology when you dig into it.
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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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The underground of the city is like what’s underground in people. Beneath the surface, it’s boiling with monsters.
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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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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 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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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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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 part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I’d rather deal with restrictions of budget. It’s better to feel free within any budget.
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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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Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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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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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 only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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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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