It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
Interpretation
Explaining personal preferences can be complex and subjective.
In this quote, Guillermo Del Toro reflects on the intricate nature of individual tastes and interests, comparing them to unconventional sexual desires. He emphasizes that while some people may find it easy to articulate their preferences, others, like himself with a passion for horror, may find such interests difficult to explain, highlighting the diversity in human appreciation.
In practice
Using the quote in a discussion about the subjectivity of art preferences.
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.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
I like things that don't sound particularly processed or mechanical or made by machines. I like music that contains human elements, with all their flaws. There's air in it, and you can hear a room of a bunch of guys playing. Those are the magic parts.
I always wrote. I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the '80s developing my craft as a writer.
I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.
People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.
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