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" I have a schizophrenic career. I have 'Cronos' and 'The Devil's Backbone' on one hand, and then I have 'Blade 2' and 'Mimic' on the other. "
Guillermo del Toro
Other
Backbone
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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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" I loved when the superhero genre crosses with horror. Morbius. Those are the guys I gravitated towards. Blade. So for me, to be interested in doing a superhero movie, it would need to be on the dark side or a Jack Kirby property. Kamandi, Demon, Mr. Miracle - I love any Kirby. "
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" It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain. "
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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 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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" When you start with Super 8, you are everything. You're the DP, the sound man, the effects guy. And what I started understanding, by working for other people, is that the best type of director is someone who rose through the ranks. "
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" I'm a huge David Fincher fan, and to me, 'Zodiac' is a masterpiece. I re-watch that movie all the time. "
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" I want to live in a space that I designed, that is for me. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others. "
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" The movie has to have some essence where you connect with it. The reason I'm doing 'Blade 2' and not 'Alien 4' is because I connect with the universe of 'Blade.' I don't connect with the universe of 'Alien.' Besides, I already did 'Alien 4': It's called 'Mimic.' "
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" 'Crimson' is written in a very particular style, and it's very precise in the way it graduates into a gothic romance. The souls that will connect with it will connect deeply. "
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" It's so much easier when you're promoting a movie that you like! "
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" I love to travel, anywhere in the world. Wherever it is... India... Tibet... wherever. I'll go anywhere. "
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" The way they control a population is by pointing at somebody else - whether they're gay, Mexican, Jewish, black - and saying, 'They are different than you. They're the reason you're in the shape you're in. You're not responsible.' And when they exonerate you through vilifying and demonizing someone else, they control you. "
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" TV now, you have to plan it: you structure it for binge watching, meaning you structure the whole season like a three-act play. You have a first act - the first third of the season - second act is the middle third, and you structure it like that. "
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You
" 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'm always very, very careful when the movies happen and where they happen. "
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" In Mexico, you're close to death all the time. "
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" I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films. "
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" I was directing before I knew it was called that. "
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" It's never hard to cast kids; it's only ever hard to direct them. "
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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 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 we live in a culture that is actually hedging all of it towards comfort and immediacy, things that scare me. All the things that they sell us as a way of life scare me. "
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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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" I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!' "
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" There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy. "
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" I think that evil is a spiritual engine in our world, our lives, our universe, that functions in order to create good. "
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