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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
I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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Carpenter Film More Others
You have to believe the magic to see it.
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Believe Look Magic People
I thought the tooth fairy was a very creepy concept as a kid. “Put your tooth under the pillow.” I was like “Why does someone want my teeth?”.
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Creepy Kids Teeth
What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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Film Firsts Geek
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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Actor Comfort Lasts Way
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
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
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
There are a lot of period movies where they say, ‘This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.’ And it’s done in like a 1950s or 60s style.
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Done Portraits Style
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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Common Directors Produce
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
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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Character House Needs
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 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
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

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