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Guillermo del Toro

Profession : Director

Birth : October 9, 1964

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.

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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

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When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.

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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.

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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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Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined.

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

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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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Well I think effects are tools.

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

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I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films.

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I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

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

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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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They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do.

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I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit.

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I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget.

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I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.

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