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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.

Guillermo del Toro

I’m a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I’d love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.
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Book Character Kids
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 don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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Directors Intimate Partnership
When somebody says something I don’t agree with, I say I’d rather not. It comes to the point where that is the strongest form of resistance. As a Mexican, it took me a long while to learn one word in English, “no”. And that is the one word we have in common.
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Common Country Long People
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
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’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
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
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
I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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Carpenter Film More Others
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
At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes “I’m not my dad” or “I’m not my mom.”
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Dad Kids Mom
Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There’s no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story.
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Fun Ghost Stories Way
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
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
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

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