Guillermo del Toro

If the shadows on the set didn't fall the way Whale liked it, he would spray paint them.

Whoa, really?

Yeah, there's a lot of shadows in the window that don't correspond to the light that is being poured on the set.

And the shadows are painted with spray paint on the walls.

And now that I told you, if you watch it again, you'll see it here and there.

It did up to a certain point, and it did only on certain movies.

Like, for example, on Pinocchio, the creation of Pinocchio is shot like a horror film.

But the creation of the creature in this film is shown like a concert, like a joyful cornucopia of anatomical parts, blood, ligament, and muscles, which has never been shown in any other versions before.

But to me, it was mandatory because I wanted to see

Victor at his professional best and at his artistic best.

So I talked to my composer, Alexander Desplat, and I said, we're going to do it with a waltz.

And I'm going to shoot it like a fun-filled concert of anatomical parts.

Yes.

First of all, I've been obsessed by medicine and anatomy.

I was the world's youngest hypochondriac.

That's quite an achievement.

It is.

And there must be a Boy Scout patch for that.

But I went to my mother every day, and I said, Mother, I think I have trichinosis of the brain.

Mother, I have cirrhosis.