What is scary to me is silly to somebody else. CG isn't scary to me. It's like comedy - comedy and horror are quite similar, in that there'll always be somebody who'll say, 'I don't think that was funny.' And it's the same with things that are meant to be scary.
Interpretation
Different individuals perceive fear and humor differently based on their personal experiences.
In this quote, Guillermo Del Toro expresses the idea that fear and laughter are both subjective experiences. What terrifies one person may seem trivial or amusing to another, highlighting the vast range of human emotions and perceptions. He illustrates this by comparing the reactions to comedy and horror, suggesting that both genres invoke varying responses depending on the audience's perspective.
In practice
In a discussion about horror films, one might use this quote to highlight the diverse reactions of viewers.
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.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko
We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.
We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.
There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.
I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.
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