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I 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.

Guillermo del Toro

When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight – it’s faster in a way.
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Country People Vivid Way
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.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Fun Ghost Stories Way
It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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Guy Horror Shoes
You can’t explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.
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Impossible Retrospect Void
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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Dad Kids Mom
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Common Directors Produce
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.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Guy Nice Questions Tough
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
You can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I’m going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Continue Fantastic Liberation Money
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.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Film Responsible Storytelling
As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Cutting Directors Finals
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Abyss Genius Mystery
I think once a Catholic, always a Catholic. You never escape. I still have Catholic guilt. It is in its basis a really powerful religion and a really strong set of beliefs. They permeate my work in many ways.
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Powerful Strong Thinking
The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Desire Harboring Since Being
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.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Compromise Despair Easy

I 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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