There is beautiful in the grotesque.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROI 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 like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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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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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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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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The underground of the city is like what’s underground in people. Beneath the surface, it’s boiling with monsters.
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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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If you’re doing a big spectacle film, you’ve got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you’ve got to be responsible only to your storytelling.
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When somebody says something I don’t agree with, I say I’d rather not. It comes to the point where that is the strongest form of resistance. As a Mexican, it took me a long while to learn one word in English, “no”. And that is the one word we have in common.
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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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But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil’s Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.
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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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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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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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For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.
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