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 TOROThe underground of the city is like what’s underground in people. Beneath the surface, it’s boiling with monsters.
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When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight – it’s faster in a way.
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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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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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We’re in three living groups, ’cause even after the world’s ended some assholes still can’t get along.
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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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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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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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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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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
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For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
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If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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