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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

Guillermo del Toro

You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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Giving People World
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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Boundaries Crosses Horror
I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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Carpenter Film More Others
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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Guy Makeup Trying
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
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
I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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Country Different People Produce
What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Film Firsts Geek
We’re in three living groups, ’cause even after the world’s ended some assholes still can’t get along.
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Groups Three World
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
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 love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.
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Important Real Thinking
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
If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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Directors Intimate Partnership
There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there’s the super vampires, which are a new breed we’ve created.
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Ghouls Super Two Vampire
I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue
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Actors Attitude Pantomime

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