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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

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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Carpenter Film More Others
What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.
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DNA Library Profound
The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
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Desire Harboring Since Being
I thought the tooth fairy was a very creepy concept as a kid. “Put your tooth under the pillow.” I was like “Why does someone want my teeth?”.
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Creepy Kids Teeth
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
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
Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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Interesting Looks Safe
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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Abyss Genius Mystery
I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I’ll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.
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Character House Needs
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
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
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
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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Broken Hard Thinking Work
I’m the freaky version of that superhero who says, wherever there is injustice, I shall be there. Whenever there is a difficult project, I’d like to be there.
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Injustice Projects Superhero
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
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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Devil Ghost Stories Thinking

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 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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