Guillermo Del Toro admits that he is happy to put his trust in the director when he is producing a movie.
Del Toro puts his producing hat back on this summer with Vincenzo Natali's latest movie Splice, which stars Oscar winner Adrein Brody.
And while the director admits that he is always on hand to help he gives the director freedom to develop the film that they want.
In an interview with Shock Til You Drop the filmmaker said: "Well, I find that the best producers are the ones that trust the director and support. The best description of a producer role came to me from Pedro Almodovar when he produced The Devil's Backbone.
"He said to me, "Look, I will be there anytime you need me. But I will never be there if you don't need me." So, with Vincenzo, I think we were instrumental in mounting the production and finding the funding and this and that. Obviously, I had my opinions about the screenplay.
I gave my opinions, but didn't believe they were right or wrong. I would just tell them to him and he could do anything he pleased. I gave my opinion of the design of the creature, blah blah blah.
"But it is Vincenzo's movie in the same way that The Orphanage is Bayona's movie. But when the time came for post-production, I did something that very few producers do which is, instead of telling him to cut the movie and make it shorter, I kept telling him to make it longer.
Because I had seem some footage in dailies that I thought was really, really good for him to reconsider not taking out. I gave him a few ideas but, you know, this is Vincenzo's baby, no pun intended.
What project Del Toro is now going to work on remains unclear as the director left The Hobbit earlier this week.
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