There are times when you are in despair, because in order not to betray who you are, you don’t compromise, you don’t make movies that would be very lucrative or prestigious or easily understood. And yet I stay attached to the most uncanny premises. It’s never been easy.
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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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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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.
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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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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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The underground of the city is like what’s underground in people. Beneath the surface, it’s boiling with monsters.
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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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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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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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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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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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Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
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The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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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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