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.
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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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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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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Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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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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I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.
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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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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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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 only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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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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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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For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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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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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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