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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.

Guillermo del Toro

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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Impossible Retrospect Void
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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Country People Vivid Way
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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Fun Ghost Stories Way
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
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
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.
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Block Retreat Want
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
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
Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
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Drinking London People
There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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Beautiful Grotesque Happen
You have to believe the magic to see it.
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Believe Look Magic People
I’m a movement Nazi. It used to be my way before. Now, in the last three projects. I found a way to let the actors find their comfort and still find the precision in the show. It’s a change in me.
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Actor Comfort Lasts Way
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
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Power Quiet Thinking
I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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Country Different People Produce
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 Real Thinking
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 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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