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I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror.
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Eye
Horror
I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit.
Guillermo del Toro
Movies
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.
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Power
Quiet
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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Movies
Cinema
Project
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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People
When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.
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Country
In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old.
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Old
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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Attitude
Actors
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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Ideas
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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Experience
Open
Well I think effects are tools.
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Tools
Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
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Love
First
What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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Film
First
Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined.
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First
For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.
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Movies
Years