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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
Abyss
Edge
Edges
Mystery
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The only thing you can do as an artist is to come to the world, see what no one is doing, and leave behind one or two things that wouldn’t have happened without you.
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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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When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.
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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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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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For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.
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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 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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You can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I'm going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.
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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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You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.
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When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.
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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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Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -
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Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
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You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.
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Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.
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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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