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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

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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Abyss
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Genius

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With every movie I produce, I learn something. I watch the directors. It's like the relationship you have with your children. I'm there to learn from my daughters. They are the perfect spirits.
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As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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In a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond.
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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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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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For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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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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There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of.
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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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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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I think that during the shoot, you should never be there, unless something goes really wrong and as producer, you're responsible. The sign you did your job right is if you are not there.
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For any actor to have Oliver Stone call him or her up… It’s a compliment. He expects you to be on your toes. If you’re not, he pokes at you until you react. He’s very provocative, creatively. It started like a lot of hard work, but it ended up a lot of fun.
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I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.
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In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish– thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust.
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I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. That no matter what budget you're doing, you should be dreaming bigger than the budget you have, and then it's a matter of reigning it in to the reality. You try to make things count.
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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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I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.
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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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