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.
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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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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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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At 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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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 think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
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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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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue
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Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There’s no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story.
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I’m a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I’d love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.
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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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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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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 Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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