For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROI 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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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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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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I’m a movement Nazi. It used to be my way before. Now, in the last three projects. I found a way to let the actors find their comfort and still find the precision in the show. It’s a change in me.
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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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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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It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you’ve broken – rather than being careful with them in the first place.
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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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Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes “I’m not my dad” or “I’m not my mom.”
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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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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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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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