65 Guillermo del Toro Quotes for You to Enjoy

Guillermo del Toro

Mexican Director

Born: Oct 9, 1964

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I'd love to come back as the most annoying ghost ever. Guillermo del Toro

Love Back Ghost Come Most Annoying Ever

There is beauty and humility in imperfection. Guillermo del Toro

Beauty Humility Imperfection

I think when we wake up in the morning, we can choose between fear and love. Every morning. And every morning, if you choose one, that doesn't define you until the end... The way you end your story is important. It's important that we choose love over fear, because love is the answer. Guillermo del Toro

I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own. Guillermo del Toro

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Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection. Guillermo del Toro

Monsters Imperfection Saints Patron

Insects are living metaphors for me. They are so alien and so remote and so perfect, but also they are emotionless; they don't have any human or mammalian instincts. They'll eat their young at the drop of a hat; they can eat your house! There's no empathy - none. Guillermo del Toro

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I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. Guillermo del Toro

Ambition Exceed Feel Budget Always Should Your

It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism. Guillermo del Toro

Only Come Glorify Times Modern Modern Times

I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot. Guillermo del Toro

Think More Habit Developing Times Than Shoot Hollywood Actually

I hope to continue doing TV, and I think that what I've learned on 'The Strain' will come in handy. Guillermo del Toro

Hope Will Think TV Come Learned Doing Continue Handy Strain

A lot of Mexican Catholic dogma, the way it's taught, it's about existing in a state of grace, which I found impossible to reconcile with the much darker view of the world and myself, even as a child. Guillermo del Toro

Love is love. And it's much better than hatred and fear. Guillermo del Toro

Love Love Is Fear Better Hatred Than Much

When you start with Super 8, you are everything. You're the DP, the sound man, the effects guy. And what I started understanding, by working for other people, is that the best type of director is someone who rose through the ranks. Guillermo del Toro

If you want to know how to handle a crew, it's great to be part of a crew. Guillermo del Toro

Great You Crew Part Know How Handle Want

I have a very promiscuous relationship with all my objects. Guillermo del Toro

Relationship Promiscuous Objects Very

When I was a child, I was raised Catholic. Somewhere, I didn't fit with the saints and holy men. I discovered the monsters - in Boris Karloff, I saw a beautiful, innocent creature in a state of grace, sacrificed by sins he did not commit. Guillermo del Toro

I'm always very, very careful when the movies happen and where they happen. Guillermo del Toro

Always Very Where Happen Movies Careful

I have said no to many, many Day of the Dead projects in the past, about 10 or 15, because every time I heard a take it was from someone who didn't know the celebration. Guillermo del Toro

Time Day Past Every Every Time Projects About Someone Take Know Dead Because Said Heard Celebration In The Past Who Many

As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't. Guillermo del Toro

Director Be True Design Every Damn True Like Itself Movie

I've been going through immigration all my life, and I've been stopped for traffic violations by cops, and they get much more curious about me than the regular guy. The moment they hear my accent, things get a little deeper. Guillermo del Toro

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I truly try to create beauty and reflection and all of that as conscientiously and judiciously and minutely as I can. Guillermo del Toro

Reflection Try Beauty Truly Create

You cannot dictate what people find funny, what people find attractive, or what people find scary. There is not a norm. Guillermo del Toro

Funny You People Find Scary Attractive Norm Dictate Cannot

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