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I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.
Guillermo del Toro
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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
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Guadalajara
México
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Oliver Stone will never be happy with the first take. He wants more than that. When youre delivering your lines, hell stop you and tell you some kind of riddle about the character and you have to go away and figure that out. If youre hoping for him to give you all the answers, then youre in for a long day.
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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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I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue
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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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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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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
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Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -
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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 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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As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion.
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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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Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the movie industry: So is a video game.
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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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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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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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The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.
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I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
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