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"Well I think effects are tools."
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"Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out."
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"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."
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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
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"I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV."
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"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
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"I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest."
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"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."
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"A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin."
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"I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue."
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"I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express."
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"Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined."
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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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"When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly."
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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

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

"In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old."
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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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"For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made."
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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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