I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
Interpretation
The essence and strength of creative work often lies in subtlety and what is left unsaid or unseen.
Guillermo Del Toro's quote suggests that true power and beauty can be found in the understated and the unseen aspects of art and life. It emphasizes that not everything needs to be prominent or visible to carry significant weight, and sometimes, the quiet presence of certain elements holds a deeper, more profound influence than what is overtly displayed on screen or in public view.
In practice
During an art exhibition, one might quote this to highlight the significance of subtle artistic details.
I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own.
As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't.
If you ask me, I alternate between truly bizarre, what you would call 'Hollywood' movies and truly bizarre, what you would call 'arthouse' movies.
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.
The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.
When you start with Super 8, you are everything. You're the DP, the sound man, the effects guy. And what I started understanding, by working for other people, is that the best type of director is someone who rose through the ranks.
Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity
Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.
I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.
What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.
I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.
No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.
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