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.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a revival of interest in atmospheric ghost stories within cinema.
Guillermo Del Toro reflects on the comeback of gothic ghost stories in film, highlighting the success of movies like 'The Others', 'Devil's Backbone', and 'The Sixth Sense'. He implies that this resurgence emphasizes a return to storytelling that relies on atmospheric tension and richly developed narratives, characteristic of traditional ghost stories that evoke deeper emotional responses.
In practice
During a film festival, one might quote this to emphasize the importance of atmosphere in storytelling.
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.
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.
The way they control a population is by pointing at somebody else - whether they're gay, Mexican, Jewish, black - and saying, 'They are different than you. They're the reason you're in the shape you're in. You're not responsible.' And when they exonerate you through vilifying and demonizing someone else, they control you.
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his characters or harbours any illusions about the creative process. But at the same time, I think it's juvenile and arrogant when literary writers compulsively remind their readers that the characters aren't real. People know that already. The challenge is to make an intelligent reader suspend disbelief, to seduce them into the reality of a narrative.
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