I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
GUILLERMO DEL TOROI 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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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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It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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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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People think you’re like The Godfather, waiting for scripts to come in. But, you’re hustling, you’re desperate, you’re panicked and you’re horrified. The movie you think you’re going to do next, you don’t do. The movie you think you’re never going to do, you make.
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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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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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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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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.
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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 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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In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
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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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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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Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
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