"The Orphanage" is 33-year-old director Juan Antonio Bayona's first feature film, and while it's a striking enough film in and of itself, certainly the presence of Guillermo del Toro ("Pan's Labyrinth") in the role of producer helped the film get the attention it deserved. Dressed in standard directorial black, the diminutive filmmaker discussed his career and the art of fright.
I don't mean to be rude, but your film doesn't look much like it was made by a music-video director.
(Laughs.) Yeah, but people always accuse my music videos of not looking like music videos; they look like movies. It's an interesting challenge to try and tell a story without using dialogue, which is what you have to do in a music video.