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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.

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

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.

Juan Antonio Bayona

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.

Juan Antonio Bayona

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.

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.

Juan Antonio Bayona

The tree has been always an allegory for spiritual growth.

Juan Antonio Bayona

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

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

Juan Antonio Bayona

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

Juan Antonio Bayona

After 'The Orphanage' and 'The Impossible,' 'A Monster Calls' is the perfect final chapter in a trilogy centred on the extraordinary strength of the mother-child bond.

Juan Antonio Bayona

You're watching the movie for the first time when you're working with the actors in front of the camera. You don't think about how the audience will react. You discover the film.

Juan Antonio Bayona

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