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Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.

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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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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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With supernatural things, I have heard ghosts, but I've never seen ghosts. I do seek ghosts and I would love to see one, but I would crap my pants.
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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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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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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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When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.
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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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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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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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For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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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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There are two types of producing deals, and I've had both. I've produced over 20 movies now. You are either watching in horror, as the cars take the curve in the grand prix, or you're enjoying it.
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I thought the tooth fairy was a very creepy concept as a kid. Put your tooth under the pillow. I was like Why does someone want my teeth?.
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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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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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Survival often feels like an indignity.
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There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created.
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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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Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.
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