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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.

Guillermo del Toro

Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
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Heart Knows Uncomplicated
In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
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People Real Thinking
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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Common Directors Produce
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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Causes Fighting Stuff
I think making small movies reminds you of the effort. When you make big movies, the effort is to fight for freedom. When you make small movies, the effort is making the day, making the budget, and it’s great, too.
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Effort Fighting Thinking
As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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Cutting Directors Finals
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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Block Retreat Want
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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Eye Sound Thinking
The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
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Desire Harboring Since Being
Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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Interesting Looks Safe
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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Continue Fantastic Liberation Money
You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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Giving People World
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.
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Compromise Despair Easy
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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Abyss Genius Mystery
I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.
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Genre New Safe Something
What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.
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DNA Library Profound

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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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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