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The carnies know they’re carnies, [t]hey don’t try to be anything else. It’s the people in the city who pretend they are judges and philanthropists and industrialists. True rot comes when you con yourself.

— Guillermo del Toro

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"Success is fucking up on your own terms."

"The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7."

For me these things are like an onion, as you discover more layers, you cry even more. There are no winners in wars, only blood and losers.

Peter Frankfurt (producer), discussing a stuntman: "He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.

"We're here to entertain you while you wonder why the fuck this channel has two asshole talking while you're trying to watch your movie."

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