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With actors, it's really about feeding them all the time. I don't get involved in their process. I try to do the opposite, feeding them, feeding them, feeding them, and you can see very easily how they react to it. Juan Antonio Bayona

I think your behavior is different when you work on digital or film. It seems that… I feel most focused if I'm working on film. 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

The tree has been always an allegory for spiritual growth. Juan Antonio Bayona

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

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

Music is very helpful, not just for the actors, but the whole crew and myself. It gives you the tone of the scene. Everyone is focused on the tone of the scene when we are shooting, and we are having an emotional reaction to the music immediately. Juan Antonio Bayona

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

When you're portraying a tough situation, you have to show some of the things in there. Juan Antonio Bayona

There is a company in Barcelona called Headless, and I was a huge fan. I love their style. I had been trying to work with them for years. 'A Monster Calls' was the perfect project to work on with them. Juan Antonio Bayona