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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

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
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
Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There’s no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story.
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Fun Ghost Stories Way
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
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
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
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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Film Responsible Storytelling
You have to believe the magic to see it.
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Believe Look Magic People
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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Kids Violence Violent
If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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Directors Intimate Partnership
Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
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Heart Knows Uncomplicated
You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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Giving People World
Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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Interesting Looks Safe
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
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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Genre Halloween Horror Independent
We’re in three living groups, ’cause even after the world’s ended some assholes still can’t get along.
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Groups Three World

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

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