pans secondary quotes

• Del Toro was warned to not make the film, he has eluded to the difficulties in securing funding for then film.


  'the production and the shooting of Pan was very,very hard and a very difficult experience. After Mimic, pan was the toughest shoot ive ever had.'
• 'shooting pan was very painful, but it also became a war about me not compromising. i gave back my entire salary in order to get the film made the way i wanted it.'

  Del Toro on shooting pan
• 'I probably should have abandoned it the moment the funding fell through the first time, but i stuck with it for almost two and a half years.' 
Del Toro 2006
• Recieved wide spread critical appeal, Mark Kermode 'pan is a dark fairy tale that distils his distinctive mix of fact and fantasy, poetry and poilitics, pain and pleasure.
• Mark Kermode 'it is a poetic vision in which the grim realities of war are matched and mirrored by a descent into an underworld populated by fearsomely beautiful monsters.'
• 'in fairytales, all stories are about the return to the womb (heaven, home) or wandering out into the world and facing your dragon.' Del Toro.
• Del Toro finds a vital connection between gender and theme. 'fascism, the absolute lack of imagination, the absolute lack of choice and the most masucline expression of power.'

  'male power is exclusive, female power is inclusive. its about the ability to nurture, embrace and grow.'
• 'the very reason that mercedes is able to smuggle food, medicine and information to the (guerillas) with Vidal noticing is because to him a women is not only a second class citizen, but virtually invisible.' Mar Diestro-Dopido