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" Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined. "
Guillermo del Toro
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" I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage. "
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" I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot. "
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" I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. "
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" Everything I do, I do it with the hope that people will watch it more than twice. Whether it's 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Pacific Rim' or the opening of 'The Simpsons,' I do it with that hope. "
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" You cannot dictate what people find funny, what people find attractive, or what people find scary. There is not a norm. "
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" I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth. "
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" I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death. "
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" I love monsters the way people worship holy images. To me, they really connect in a very fundamental way to my identity. "
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" I would have killed to do 'Beauty And The Beast' at Warners, which went away. I would have killed to do 'The Witches' at Warners that went away. God knows there are many, many of them. All I can do is diligently do the screenplay, diligently do the design work, deliver a budget, and then await a decision. "
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" I think looking is the essential act of loving. Brothers, fathers and sons, lovers, whatever. What you do when you love someone is look at that person as that person is. "
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" A lot of Mexican Catholic dogma, the way it's taught, it's about existing in a state of grace, which I found impossible to reconcile with the much darker view of the world and myself, even as a child. "
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" 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. "
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" The creature from the black lagoon - I drew that creature almost every day, two, three times a day, for probably my first ten years of life, you know. "
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Day
Life
" The great thing about Roald Dahl is he tackled the big questions of life without any fear of being shocking or brutal, because he knew the kids could take it. "
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Fear
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" I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!' "
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Insect
Greatest
Giant
" Every Sunday on Channel 6 in Guadalajara, where I lived, they dedicated most every Sunday to black-and-white horror films and sci-fi. So I watched them. I watched 'Tarantula.' I watched 'The Monolith Monsters.' I watched all the Universal library. "
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" There is a heavy Mexican Catholic streak in my movies, and a huge Mexican sense of melodrama. Everything is overwrought, and there's a sense of acceptance of the fantastic in my films, which is innately Mexican. So when people ask, 'How can you define the Mexican-ness of your films?' I go, 'How can I not?' It's all I am. "
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You
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I Am
" The problem with 'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark' was that it was designed to be a PG-13 movie. It was literally a horror movie for a younger generation. I was trying to do the film equivalent of teenage, young adult readers, and when they gave it an R rating, the movie couldn't sustain an R. "
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Problem
Trying
Dark
" For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made. "
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" I have a lot of artifacts - books on witchcrafts and talismans. I have a big, big collection of original occult books from the 1800s and 1700s, and some of the oldest books on apparitions and vampires. All original printings. It's not that I'm a crazy believer, I just find it to be amazing research material. "
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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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" 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. "
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Impossible
You
" When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly. "
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Country
Mexico
Slowly
" I truly try to create beauty and reflection and all of that as conscientiously and judiciously and minutely as I can. "
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Try
Reflection
" 'Hellboy 1' was such a huge, huge overperformer on Blu-ray and ancillary markets. It was one of the first movies on Blu-ray; it has multiple editions. All the ancillary markets overperformed everywhere. And the second one did good on all ancillary markets, which now do not exist. "
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Exist
Second
Now
" 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. "
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Film
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" I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror. "
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" I have a very promiscuous relationship with all my objects. "
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" I've been going through immigration all my life, and I've been stopped for traffic violations by cops, and they get much more curious about me than the regular guy. The moment they hear my accent, things get a little deeper. "
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" I think Roald Dahl had the rarest combination of talking to kids about complex emotions, and he was able to show you that the world of kids was sophisticated, complex, and had a lot more darkness than adults ever want to remember. "
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