I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue
GUILLERMO DEL TOROIt’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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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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As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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You can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I’m going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.
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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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If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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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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In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
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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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I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don’t see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.
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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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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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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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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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