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" Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters. "
Guillermo del Toro
Well
First
Identify
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" I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot. "
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" I'd love to come back as the most annoying ghost ever. "
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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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" Monsters are evangelical creatures for me. "
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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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" 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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Art
" There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created. "
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" I think that most of the monsters I dream of, I dreamt of as a child. "
Guillermo del Toro
Child
Dream
Monsters
" 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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Someone
Said
" It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism. "
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Only
Modern
" Well I think effects are tools. "
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Well
Effects
" As a craftsman, I bust my butt as much for 'Blade 2' as I do for 'Devil's Backbone.' "
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Devil
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" What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek. "
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Me
Geek
" I had nightmares as a kid. As an adult, I have very prosaic dreams. "
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Adult
Nightmares
Kid
" The reason there's a 'Hellboy 2' is not because the studios were passionate about the first one; it's because the numbers made sense. "
Guillermo del Toro
Numbers
Passionate
Reason
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
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Living
Dying
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
You
Start
Rose
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Damn
Be True
Design
" 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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Hope
Doing
Will
" I'm always very, very careful when the movies happen and where they happen. "
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Careful
Always
" To me, movies are books. They are texts to be consulted. "
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Texts
Movies
" I was directing before I knew it was called that. "
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Before
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" I want to live in a space that I designed, that is for me. "
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Want
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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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Funny
People
" 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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" 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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" 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 think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror. "
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Horror
Take
I Think
" As a producer, I learned not to declare anything about a movie I'm not directing. "
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Anything
Producer
Directing