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Guillermo del Toro

"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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"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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"An actor is just a part of a movie, but director - he is the movie."

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"Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite."

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"Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either."

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"In the movies, God is an actor just like everyone else."

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"The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits."

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"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."

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"Cinema was my rite of passage."

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Amber Hurdle

"What made a movie buff different from others was the amount of freakish details they chose to fill their heads with. The typical movie-goer remembered the big lines, the ones that you could find on the film's shirts and posters. Just a bunch of tag-lines used for promotion. A true movie buff memorized the odd ones that said more about the story's theme or characters. A true buff read up on the movie's history."

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"Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon."

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"Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks."

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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 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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"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, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters."
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