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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. "

Guillermo del Toro

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" I have said no to many, many Day of the Dead projects in the past, about 10 or 15, because every time I heard a take it was from someone who didn't know the celebration. "

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" I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others. "

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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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" '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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" I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot. "

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" I hope to continue doing TV, and I think that what I've learned on 'The Strain' will come in handy. "

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" In Mexico, you're close to death all the time. "

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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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" It's so much easier when you're promoting a movie that you like! "

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" I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films. "

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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 feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. "

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

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" I'm fortunate enough that my personal life falls into whack with my professional life. My kids love visiting the sets; they love the monsters. "

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" Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters. "

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" 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. "

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" To me, movies are books. They are texts to be consulted. "

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" Every movie, I complicate. I make the hard choices. I remember when I was pitching 'Pan's Labyrinth:' An anti-fascist fairy tale set in Civil War Spain, where the girl dies at the end. It's not easy. "

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" There's nothing more political than fantasy. "

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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'm always very, very careful when the movies happen and where they happen. "

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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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" In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old. "

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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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" 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. "

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" I think when we wake up in the morning, we can choose between fear and love. Every morning. And every morning, if you choose one, that doesn't define you until the end... The way you end your story is important. It's important that we choose love over fear, because love is the answer. "

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