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I'm a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedias. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly obsessed with anatomy, and I thought I had trichinosis, an aneurism, jaundice! And then an encyclopedia of art.

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I have said no to many, many Day of the Dead projects in the past, about 10 or 15, because every time I heard a take it was from someone who didn't know the celebration.

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Ultimately, you walk life side-by-side with death, and the Day of the Dead, curiously enough, is about life. It's an impulse that's intrinsic to the Mexican character.

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I think we live in a culture that is actually hedging all of it towards comfort and immediacy, things that scare me. All the things that they sell us as a way of life scare me.

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I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great.

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I believe that we will elevate and differentiate the discourse of cinema the more we discuss image creation in specific terms.

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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.

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I truly try to create beauty and reflection and all of that as conscientiously and judiciously and minutely as I can.

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Most of the time - in 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Devil's Backbone' - I'm talking about my childhood.

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You cannot dictate what people find funny, what people find attractive, or what people find scary. There is not a norm.

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Biography

Nationality: Mexican

Type: Director

Born: October 9th, 1964

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