You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROIn real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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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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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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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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The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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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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If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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