There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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 can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I’m going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.
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You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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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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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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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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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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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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I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don’t see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.
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I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
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Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.
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Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
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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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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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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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Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
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