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"I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit."
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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."
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"The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better."
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"The fact is, it's hard to release movies."
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"There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch."
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"You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them."
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"They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up."
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"I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s."
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"Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me."
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"Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!"
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"I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized."
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"What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek."
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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."
Devil
"In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old."
Old
"For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made."
Movies
"I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen."
Power
"When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly."
Nation
"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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"For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot."
Devil
"Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters."
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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."
Creativity
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