65 Guillermo del Toro Quotes for You to Enjoy

Guillermo del Toro

Mexican Director

Born: Oct 9, 1964

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Related authors: Alfred Hitchcock David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen

Any actor I admire and enjoy working with - Sergi Lopez as the bad guy in 'Pan's Labyrinth,' or the little girl who played young Mako in 'Pacific Rim,' it makes no difference - I like actors with a very strong centre. Guillermo del Toro

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Every project that you write about or read about, it goes through years of hard work. We write a screenplay; we design. Then you submit those and the budget, and it's out of your hands. Guillermo del Toro

I'm having a lot of fun on Twitter, tweeting about books. Guillermo del Toro

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In Mexico, you're close to death all the time. Guillermo del Toro

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The problem with 'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark' was that it was designed to be a PG-13 movie. It was literally a horror movie for a younger generation. I was trying to do the film equivalent of teenage, young adult readers, and when they gave it an R rating, the movie couldn't sustain an R. Guillermo del Toro

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Everything I do, I do it with the hope that people will watch it more than twice. Whether it's 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Pacific Rim' or the opening of 'The Simpsons,' I do it with that hope. Guillermo del Toro

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It's so much easier when you're promoting a movie that you like! Guillermo del Toro

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As a craftsman, I bust my butt as much for 'Blade 2' as I do for 'Devil's Backbone.' Guillermo del Toro

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The movie has to have some essence where you connect with it. The reason I'm doing 'Blade 2' and not 'Alien 4' is because I connect with the universe of 'Blade.' I don't connect with the universe of 'Alien.' Besides, I already did 'Alien 4': It's called 'Mimic.' Guillermo del Toro

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I don't think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be. Guillermo del Toro

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I'm very grateful of my life and my career and the movies I've been able to make. Guillermo del Toro

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I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage. Guillermo del Toro

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I have a lot of artifacts - books on witchcrafts and talismans. I have a big, big collection of original occult books from the 1800s and 1700s, and some of the oldest books on apparitions and vampires. All original printings. It's not that I'm a crazy believer, I just find it to be amazing research material. Guillermo del Toro

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I wrote a screenplay for 'The Witches,' which Alfonso Cuaron was producing, but we couldn't get it made! The studio just wouldn't greenlight that movie. It's my favorite Roald Dahl book, 'The Witches,' because I grew up with my grandmother a lot of the time, and the relationship between the boy and the grandmother speaks volumes to me. Guillermo del Toro

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Making a film is like raising a child. You cannot raise a child to be liked by everyone. You raise a child to excel, and you teach the child to be true to his own nature. There will be people who'll dislike your child because he or she is who they are, and there will be people who'll love your child immensely for the very same reason. Guillermo del Toro

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What is scary to me is silly to somebody else. CG isn't scary to me. It's like comedy - comedy and horror are quite similar, in that there'll always be somebody who'll say, 'I don't think that was funny.' And it's the same with things that are meant to be scary. Guillermo del Toro

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To me, the thing love and cinema have in common is that they are about seeing. The greatest act of love you can give to anyone is to see them exactly as they are. That's the greatest act of love because you wash away imperfections. Guillermo del Toro

I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!' Guillermo del Toro

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I was a kid when I read Jane Eyre and fell in love with that universe. I didn't have the acumen to say the prose is old or the prose is too complex. I just fell in love with Jane's very lonely soul, much the same way I fell in love with Frankenstein's creature for the same reason. Those old souls exist in every decade in every century. Guillermo del Toro

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Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters. Guillermo del Toro

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Every movie, I complicate. I make the hard choices. I remember when I was pitching 'Pan's Labyrinth:' An anti-fascist fairy tale set in Civil War Spain, where the girl dies at the end. It's not easy. Guillermo del Toro

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There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy. Guillermo del Toro

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