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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
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Television Producer
Guadalajara
México
Monsters
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I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is the sin of banality and comfort. Those things are in my movies, but also my movies are quite the fruit of somebody who defines himself as an agnostic.
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Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -
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Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.
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My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear.
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I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.
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Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.
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The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.
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Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.
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Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make the industry poorer, it makes the landscape of cinema poorer, in America. The impossibility to get a good release on a really good European, Latin American, Asian movie is a tragedy.
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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's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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When I see a short schedule, my question to the director is, are you really comfortable with this, or are you doing it to be a good boy? At the end, you only win the medal if the film is good, you don't win a medal if the movie is on time.
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I really believe that in the larger sense, not only today but at all times, you only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.
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Oliver Stone will never be happy with the first take. He wants more than that. When you’re delivering your lines, he’ll stop you and tell you some kind of riddle about the character and you have to go away and figure that out. If you’re hoping for him to give you all the answers, then you’re in for a long day.
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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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