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" If you ask me, I alternate between truly bizarre, what you would call 'Hollywood' movies and truly bizarre, what you would call 'arthouse' movies. "
Guillermo del Toro
Hollywood
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Me
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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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" I was very attracted to doing 'The Wolverine' in Japan because that's my favorite chapter in the story of Wolverine. But I'm not a superhero guy. "
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" In Mexico, you're close to death all the time. "
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" 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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" It's so much easier when you're promoting a movie that you like! "
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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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" I love to travel, anywhere in the world. Wherever it is... India... Tibet... wherever. I'll go anywhere. "
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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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" I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great. "
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" 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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" I don't think there is life beyond death. I don't. But I do believe that we get this clarity in the last minute of our life. The titles we achieved, the honors we managed, they all vanish. You are left alone with you and your deeds and the things you didn't do. "
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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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" What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek. "
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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 like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others. "
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" 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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" 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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" '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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" Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters. "
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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'm very grateful of my life and my career and the movies I've been able to make. "
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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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" I want to live in a space that I designed, that is for me. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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