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" I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films. "
Guillermo del Toro
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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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" They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" If you want to know how to handle a crew, it's great to be part of a crew. "
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" I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit. "
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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
" I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own. "
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" There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy. "
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Art
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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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Universe
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Me
Comfort
Culture
" I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror. "
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Take
I Think
" Most of the time - in 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Devil's Backbone' - I'm talking about my childhood. "
Guillermo del Toro
Most
Talking
Devil
" 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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Like
You
Art
" I'm having a lot of fun on Twitter, tweeting about books. "
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About
Twitter
Lot
" For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot. "
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Devil
Loved
Backbone
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Keep
Ideas
Myself
" When I did 'Mimic,' it was such a difficult experience to try to make. Believe it or not, I did try to make a really adult giant bug movie. And then, in the course of the process, it kind of died a horrible death and gave birth to the movie that exists now, which now, in retrospect, I like. But it's not the movie I set out to do. "
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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
Movies
I Am
" I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen. "
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Things
Power
Quiet
" To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime story to my kids or trying to mount a movie or write a short story or a novel, I take it very seriously. "
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Daily Life
Spiritual
Art
" In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old. "
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Concert
Old
You
" 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. "
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Other
Backbone
Career
" The way I love monsters is a Mexican way of loving monsters, which is that I am not judgmental. The Anglo way of seeing things is that monsters are exceptional and bad, and people are good. But in my movies, creatures are taken for granted. "
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People
Movies
Love
" It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain. "
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Effort
Adversity
Unnatural
" I love the entire 'Constantine' mythology, the 'Dead Man' mythology, the Alex Holland 'Swamp Thing' mythology. "
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Thing
Dead
Love
" I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. "
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" As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't. "
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Be True
Design
" 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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