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What makes a man a man? a friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.
Guillermo del Toro
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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
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When I see a short schedule, my question to the director is, are you really comfortable with this, or are you doing it to be a good boy? At the end, you only win the medal if the film is good, you don't win a medal if the movie is on time.
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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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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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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 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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Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.
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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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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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I'm a movement Nazi. It used to be my way before. Now, in the last three projects. I found a way to let the actors find their comfort and still find the precision in the show. It's a change in me.
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If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.
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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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When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.
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I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is the sin of banality and comfort. Those things are in my movies, but also my movies are quite the fruit of somebody who defines himself as an agnostic.
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Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined
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The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully it simply flies on.
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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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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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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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People tend to think that big things only happen to big people ... I think that is not true. The small decisions we make every day define who we are and define the world around us. ... But I bet to you there is a decision every day in your life where you affect somebody else.
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As a child that was disenfranchised from everything, and that was in a world that was the wrong size, run by the wrong people, the wrong morale and the wrong rules, I felt completely outside of that, and I wanted some measure of control, and the measure of control I found was through fear.
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