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" Any actor I admire and enjoy working with - Sergi Lopez as the bad guy in 'Pan's Labyrinth,' or the little girl who played young Mako in 'Pacific Rim,' it makes no difference - I like actors with a very strong centre. "

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" I love what many of my contemporaries are doing, especially people like Terry Gilliam, David Cronenberg, P. T. Anderson, and Alfonso Cuaron. "

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" It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism. "

" Most of the time - in 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Devil's Backbone' - I'm talking about my childhood. "

" I was directing before I knew it was called that. "

" I have 7,000 DVDs and Blu-rays. I have thousands of books - thousands - and roughly 15,000 comic books or something like that, hundreds of books about different art movements - the symbolists, the dadaists, the Pre-Raphaelites, the impressionists - you know, that I consult before I start every movie. "

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" For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul. "

" I love the entire 'Constantine' mythology, the 'Dead Man' mythology, the Alex Holland 'Swamp Thing' mythology. "

" When I was a kid, monsters made me feel that I could fit somewhere, even if it was... an imaginary place where the grotesque and the abnormal were celebrated and accepted. "

" I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema. "

" I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!' "

" There is beauty and humility in imperfection. "

" It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain. "

" I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage. "

" For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot. "

" I'm having a lot of fun on Twitter, tweeting about books. "

" I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing. "

" I think that evil is a spiritual engine in our world, our lives, our universe, that functions in order to create good. "

" What is scary to me is silly to somebody else. CG isn't scary to me. It's like comedy - comedy and horror are quite similar, in that there'll always be somebody who'll say, 'I don't think that was funny.' And it's the same with things that are meant to be scary. "

" I saw a martyr in the Wolf Man, who is the very moving essence of outsiderness, with which I identified fully. "

" I love monsters the way people worship holy images. To me, they really connect in a very fundamental way to my identity. "

" 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. "

" Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection. "

" I don't think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be. "

" Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' was influenced by Lovecraft big time. He wanted to make his monsters Lovecraftian. But I think many other films have been influenced by Lovecraft - like 'Alien,' which is almost an outer-space version of 'At The Mountains Of Madness.' "

" I'm a lapsed altar boy. "

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" I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth. "

" Shooting a horror story with kids, I always explain really simply. They may be scary to watch, but they're a lot of fun to shoot. You know, the kids have a great time shooting these movies. Whether you let them watch it is another matter. "

" You cannot convince a Buddhist to become a Protestant any more than you can convince a person who embraces realism as the highest form of art that fantasy is an equally important manifestation. It's impossible. "

" The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good. "

" There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy. "