It‚Äôs really been the hardest journey of connection I‚Äôve ever had with a character, because I could understand having a relationship with a much older man but I look at a 15 year-old boy and all I see is a child. But I think Sheba herself is surprised by it. Sheba is not someone who has targeted a child. Rather, I think she would say in the beginning that this is a great love, but part of her journey is to be boldly and frighteningly revealing to her inner self–Cate Blanchett

Judi Dench is universally loved and people usually identify with this generous, beautiful and brilliant person who often plays monarchs and has tremendous personal dignity. So to experience Judi Dench being caustic and acerbic and rather ungenerous we felt would be a wonderful, bracing shock. I mean, her portrait of Barbara is still deeply vulnerable, but this is not a nice woman and I think from an audiences‚Äô point of view to see Judi playing that will be quite refreshing–Director Richard Eyre

As a filmmaker, my first responsibility is to entertain, my second to educate, and the third to uplift the audience to a higher plain. If you can do those three things, then you're really cooking for the broad public. I don't make movies for an elite–Mel Gibson

What attracted me most, besides the story itself, was the image of four young men naked, handcuffed, running at dawn beneath a furious storm, to escape from a hell that would affect their lives forever. The essence of the film was right there. Four young men, naked in every sense, hammered by the storm, injured, terrified, running without knowing where they would end–Director Caetano

Cannes Film Fest 2006–Pan's Labyrinth is an affirmation, serious and beautiful, of the centrality of stories and the imagination in withstanding the world‚Äôs horrors. I know for a fact that imagination and hope have kept me alive through the roughest times in my life. Franco suffocated Spain for decades as he tried to fashion it after what he believed to be ‚Äògood for her.‚Äô Yet Spain didn't die; she exploded, vibrant and alive, in the 80‚Äôs. Spain lived the 60‚Äôs in the 80‚Äôs and they are still feeling the aftershocks of such a wonderful explosion–Del Toro