I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I’ll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROGhosts 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 think part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I’d rather deal with restrictions of budget. It’s better to feel free within any budget.
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There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there’s the super vampires, which are a new breed we’ve created.
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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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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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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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I am the nice adversary, the guy that’s going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.
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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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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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When I stage a violent scene, I try for it to serve a purpose. I do love those things, the makeup effects. But I love them more with the monsters. I never was much of a gore guy. I’ve always enjoyed just creating monsters.
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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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I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
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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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For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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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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