Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROIts a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
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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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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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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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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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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 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 think damage to the eye or damage to the teeth is one of the most universally cringing things you can do in a movie and these are very fragile sounds.
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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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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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When I stage a violent scene, I try for it to serve a purpose. I do love those things, the makeup effects. But I love them more with the monsters. I never was much of a gore guy. I’ve always enjoyed just creating monsters.
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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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In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
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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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The underground of the city is like what’s underground in people. Beneath the surface, it’s boiling with monsters.
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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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