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Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
Guillermo del Toro
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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
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Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.
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You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.
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I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.
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The idea for me is that if the movie connects with you the way I want it to connect with you, you should be experiencing both the horror and the wonder as a child would. From a child's point of view. When we're kids, brutality registers differently than when we are adults. Because as adults, we get too used to violence.
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If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.
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I don't want to move over to Beverly Hills. My goal is to make the movies I want to make and support the people I want to support. That's it.
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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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It's the difference between a parable and a pamphlet. A parable discusses things that are relevant in the past, the future, and the present - regardless of the outcome in the present. A pamphlet, on the other hand, is completely concerned with affecting an outcome in the present, the most immediate present.
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And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.
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When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.
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You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.
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