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

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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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