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Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -

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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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 are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence.
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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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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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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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Well I think effects are tools
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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 love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.
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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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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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For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion.
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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 somebody says something I don't agree with, I say I'd rather not. It comes to the point where that is the strongest form of resistance. As a Mexican, it took me a long while to learn one word in English, no. And that is the one word we have in common.
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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 don't try to define the cosmos, I know it's unknowable, but I can understand my place in the world and my place in the universe through a mixture of Taoism, Catholicism, Zen or whatever I have at hand.
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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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If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling.
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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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