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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

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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Carpenter Film More Others
For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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Backbone Devil Neurotic
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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Broken Hard Thinking Work
There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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Beautiful Grotesque Happen
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
Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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Interesting Looks Safe
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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People Thinking Waiting
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
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
But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil’s Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.
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Devil Ghost Stories Thinking
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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Horror People Thinking
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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Powerful Unseen Way
What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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Film Firsts Geek
You have to believe the magic to see it.
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Believe Look Magic People
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
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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Film Responsible Storytelling

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