Juan Antonio Bayona Quotes
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If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.
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Music is very helpful, not just for the actors, but the whole crew and myself. It gives you the tone of the scene. Everyone is focused on the tone of the scene when we are shooting, and we are having an emotional reaction to the music immediately.
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It's always good to have a limit because it forces you to think about all the ways to get what you want.
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The tree has been always an allegory for spiritual growth.
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I think your behavior is different when you work on digital or film. It seems that... I feel most focused if I'm working on film.
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With actors, it's really about feeding them all the time. I don't get involved in their process. I try to do the opposite, feeding them, feeding them, feeding them, and you can see very easily how they react to it.
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As a director, you never think about how an audience would respond. You can think about that, but you will never change what you're going to do.
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When you're portraying a tough situation, you have to show some of the things in there.
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There is not a great Spanish tradition of ghost stories. But in the period of Franco, you'd find these ghost stories: sort of hidden political movies that were supposed to be about ghosts but were about something else.
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The good thing about helping an actor create a performance is, you really don't know how you're going to do it. It's a challenge every time you get to the set. That keeps the energy flowing all the time.