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Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, We love the movie but it's too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids..
Guillermo del Toro
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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
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When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.
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I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.
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Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.
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It's the difference between a parable and a pamphlet. A parable discusses things that are relevant in the past, the future, and the present - regardless of the outcome in the present. A pamphlet, on the other hand, is completely concerned with affecting an outcome in the present, the most immediate present.
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Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined
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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
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I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.
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I try to find inspiration in books, paintings, illustrations and the one thing I try to avoid is just being inspired by other movies, because then you just are talking about movies in movies. I try to talk about movies that are culturally and spiritually a little more diverse.
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As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.
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You can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I'm going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.
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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.
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If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in that house. My father would have said Shut up and get to your room. So I thought the only sanctioned tyranny in the world is parenthood and everybody goes Yeah. It's a dictatorship - parenthood.
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In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish– thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust.
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I'm a movement Nazi. It used to be my way before. Now, in the last three projects. I found a way to let the actors find their comfort and still find the precision in the show. It's a change in me.
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When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.
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And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.
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Survival often feels like an indignity.
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