Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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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It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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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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The fairies in the ancient notion of fairies, they are not positive and cute and twinkly.They can be incredibly nasty or they can be incredibly benign. It’s a really interesting mythology when you dig into it.
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I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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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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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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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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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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Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
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I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
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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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The underground of the city is like what’s underground in people. Beneath the surface, it’s boiling with monsters.
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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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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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If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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