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

Guillermo del Toro

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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Important Real Thinking
The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
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Desire Harboring Since Being
I think once a Catholic, always a Catholic. You never escape. I still have Catholic guilt. It is in its basis a really powerful religion and a really strong set of beliefs. They permeate my work in many ways.
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Powerful Strong Thinking
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
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Power Quiet Thinking
You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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Giving People World
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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Creepy Kids Teeth
There’s nothing that defines who you are more than boundaries, whether you cross them or not, in every aspect of your life, and horror is a really great boundary.
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Boundaries Crosses Horror
For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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Backbone Devil Neurotic
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
…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
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
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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Abyss Genius Mystery
Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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Interesting Looks Safe
We’re in three living groups, ’cause even after the world’s ended some assholes still can’t get along.
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Groups Three World
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
As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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Cutting Directors Finals

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