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Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, “We love the movie but it’s too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.”.

Guillermo del Toro

As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Cutting Directors Finals
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
For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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Backbone Devil Neurotic
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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Common Country Long People
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
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
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
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 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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Effort Fighting Thinking
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
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
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Power Quiet Thinking
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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Eye Sound Thinking
The underground of the city is like what’s underground in people. Beneath the surface, it’s boiling with monsters.
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Cities Monsters People
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
I am the nice adversary, the guy that’s going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.
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Guy Nice Questions Tough
There are times when you are in despair, because in order not to betray who you are, you don’t compromise, you don’t make movies that would be very lucrative or prestigious or easily understood. And yet I stay attached to the most uncanny premises. It’s never been easy.
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Compromise Despair Easy

Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, “We love the movie but it’s too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.”.

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Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, “We love the movie but it’s too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.”.

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