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"I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit."
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"I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing."

"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."

"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."

"For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot."
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"My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay."

"All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres."

"It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing."

"I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can."

"When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies."

"I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature."

"Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies."
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