When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight – it’s faster in a way.
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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As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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The 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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I think making small movies reminds you of the effort. When you make big movies, the effort is to fight for freedom. When you make small movies, the effort is making the day, making the budget, and it’s great, too.
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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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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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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 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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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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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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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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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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…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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