In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
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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As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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The underground of the city is like what’s underground in people. Beneath the surface, it’s boiling with monsters.
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You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.
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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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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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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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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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The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
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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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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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I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue
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Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
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