20 Quotes by Juan Antonio Bayona

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.

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.

If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.

I always try to do more than one or two takes if we have the time.

I can consider myself my audience, and I'm not that weird. I'm fortunate in the things that I like, most people like.

Everybody has an idea of the tsunami of being a big wave. It is not a big wave. It is a huge amount of water that comes to land.

Every Monday night, there was a scary movie on Spanish TV, so my parents used to send me to bed. I remember lying there, listening to the TV, and imagining the movie in my head. And so probably the scariest movies I ever saw in my life were the ones I imagined.

The tree has been always an allegory for spiritual growth.

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.