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It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.

Guillermo del Toro

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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Causes Fighting Stuff
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
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
Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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Interesting Looks Safe
As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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Cutting Directors Finals
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
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
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
You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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Giving People World
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
I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it’s really great. I don’t like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.
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Horror People Thinking
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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Guy Makeup Trying
The fairies in the ancient notion of fairies, they are not positive and cute and twinkly.They can be incredibly nasty or they can be incredibly benign. It’s a really interesting mythology when you dig into it.
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Cute Interesting Nasty
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
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
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

It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.

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