"The difference between Cronos and The Devil's Backbone is I'm 36 and in Cronos I was 28, and I had now the enormous experience of eight years... but I feel I was better prepared to shoot that movie now. As a filmmaker, I had more tools."
Back at TIFF '01, filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, and losing all his money on his feature debut Cronos.
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"Recent monster movies are full of images of big cities being destroyed. In the old monster movies, it was much scarier to have them land in ordinary fishing villages. It's much more frightening to have your house destroyed than a big city."
"It's funny cause, y'know, I've never really considered myself a writer. I've considered myself a director who writes stuff for himself to do, and this was just the first one that I got a chance to do. I was very happy that the first film that I produced was one that I directed."