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

Guillermo del Toro

You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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Giving People World
There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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Beautiful Grotesque Happen
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.
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Film Responsible Storytelling
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
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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Country People Vivid Way
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
Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
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Heart Knows Uncomplicated
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 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
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
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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Abyss Genius Mystery
For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.
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Causes Fighting Stuff
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
You have to believe the magic to see it.
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Believe Look Magic People
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
I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it’s really great. I don’t like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.
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Horror People Thinking

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