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I can consider myself my audience, and I’m not that weird. I’m fortunate in the things that I like, most people like. Juan Antonio Bayona Read Quote
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I went to a festival pretending to work as a journalist to get free tickets and interview people I really admired. I remember one of these people was Guillermo del Toro. Juan Antonio Bayona Read Quote
Movies by Carlos Saura and others had ghosts, memories from the past, that they used to make a political point. Things you couldn’t talk about openly, you could speak of through ghosts. Juan Antonio Bayona Read Quote
If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side. Juan Antonio Bayona Read Quote
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. Juan Antonio Bayona Read Quote
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. Juan Antonio Bayona Read Quote
