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…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

Guillermo del Toro

We’re in three living groups, ’cause even after the world’s ended some assholes still can’t get along.
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Groups Three World
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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Common Directors Produce
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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People Thinking Waiting
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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Cute Interesting Nasty
You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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Giving People World
I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.
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Genre New Safe Something
There are a lot of period movies where they say, ‘This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.’ And it’s done in like a 1950s or 60s style.
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Done Portraits Style
What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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Film Firsts Geek
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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Book Character Kids
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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Boundaries Crosses Horror
If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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Directors Intimate Partnership
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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Important Real Thinking
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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Abyss Genius Mystery
It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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Guy Horror Shoes
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
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Power Quiet Thinking
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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Dad Kids Mom

…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

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