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For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.
I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit
I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit.
If you want to know how to handle a crew, it's great to be part of a crew.
I'm always very, very careful when the movies happen and where they happen.
For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul.
I'm very grateful of my life and my career and the movies I've been able to make.
As a producer, I learned not to declare anything about a movie I'm not directing.
Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -
As a craftsman, I bust my butt as much for 'Blade 2' as I do for 'Devil's Backbone.'
I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.
In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old.
Normally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made.
Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.
I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
I don't think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be.
When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.
The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.
For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
Most of the time - in 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Devil's Backbone' - I'm talking about my childhood.
I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth.
At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes "I'm not my dad" or "I'm not my mom."
Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.
It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage.
Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.
I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.
I hope to continue doing TV, and I think that what I've learned on 'The Strain' will come in handy.
For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.
We're in three living groups, 'cause even after the world's ended some assholes still can't get along.
When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.
I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.
I'm a huge David Fincher fan, and to me, 'Zodiac' is a masterpiece. I re-watch that movie all the time.
I love to travel, anywhere in the world. Wherever it is... India... Tibet... wherever. I'll go anywhere.
I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates.
...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.
I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.
video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".
I love the entire 'Constantine' mythology, the 'Dead Man' mythology, the Alex Holland 'Swamp Thing' mythology.
I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.
I saw a martyr in the Wolf Man, who is the very moving essence of outsiderness, with which I identified fully.
I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.
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.
I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.