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Guillermo del Toro

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

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Donna Grant

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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Donna Grant

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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Donna Grant

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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Donna Grant

"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."

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Donna Grant

"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

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Donna Grant

"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."

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Donna Grant

"Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President."

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Donna Grant

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

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Donna Grant

"Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A."

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Donna Grant

"But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me."

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Guillermo del Toro
"I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue."

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Guillermo del Toro
"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."

Devil

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

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Guillermo del Toro
"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."

Experience

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Guillermo del Toro
"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."

Creativity

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Guillermo del Toro
"What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek."

Film

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

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Guillermo del Toro
"Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters."

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Guillermo del Toro
"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."

Movies

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Guillermo del Toro
"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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