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You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

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
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Disobey
Disobedience
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When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.
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I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.
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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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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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