If you ask me, I alternate between truly bizarre, what you would call 'Hollywood' movies and truly bizarre, what you would call 'arthouse' movies.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the balance between mainstream cinema and independent films in the speaker's taste.
Guillermo Del Toro highlights his eclectic cinematic preferences by expressing that he enjoys both mainstream 'Hollywood' films and the more unconventional 'arthouse' films. This juxtaposition illustrates the diverse nature of art and how personal taste can bridge distinct genres and styles, emphasizing the value of creativity in all forms of storytelling.
In practice
This quote could be used in a film studies class to discuss different genres of cinema.
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.
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.
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.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked this earth for thirty years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures β not made to please a certain taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling.
Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.
The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.
As Juan Gabriel, music is my religion, and mariachi is my devotion. And my songs are my prayers.
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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