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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.

Guillermo del Toro

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.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Film Responsible Storytelling
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’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
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
Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
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Drinking London People
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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Cute Interesting Nasty
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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People Thinking Waiting
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
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
…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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Love Maternal might Spiritual
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
Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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Interesting Looks Safe
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
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Power Quiet Thinking
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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Done Portraits Style
You can’t explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.
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Impossible Retrospect Void
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.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Devil Ghost Stories Thinking

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