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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. "

Guillermo del Toro

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" I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. "

" For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot. "

" 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. "

" I have a lot of artifacts - books on witchcrafts and talismans. I have a big, big collection of original occult books from the 1800s and 1700s, and some of the oldest books on apparitions and vampires. All original printings. It's not that I'm a crazy believer, I just find it to be amazing research material. "

" 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. "

" I'm a huge David Fincher fan, and to me, 'Zodiac' is a masterpiece. I re-watch that movie all the time. "

" 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. "

" There's nothing more political than fantasy. "

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" It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain. "

" It's never hard to cast kids; it's only ever hard to direct them. "

" If you want to know how to handle a crew, it's great to be part of a crew. "

" I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen. "

" I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror. "

" I wrote a screenplay for 'The Witches,' which Alfonso Cuaron was producing, but we couldn't get it made! The studio just wouldn't greenlight that movie. It's my favorite Roald Dahl book, 'The Witches,' because I grew up with my grandmother a lot of the time, and the relationship between the boy and the grandmother speaks volumes to me. "

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Boy

" As a craftsman, I bust my butt as much for 'Blade 2' as I do for 'Devil's Backbone.' "

" I'm a lapsed altar boy. "

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Altar

Boy

" Everything I do, I do it with the hope that people will watch it more than twice. Whether it's 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Pacific Rim' or the opening of 'The Simpsons,' I do it with that hope. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In the case of 'Shape Of Water,' I want it to feel like a song. I wanted people to come out of the movie humming the movie. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" As a producer, I learned not to declare anything about a movie I'm not directing. "

" I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth. "

" 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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