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The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully it simply flies on.
Guillermo del Toro
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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
Film Actor
Film Director
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Novelist
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Television Actor
Television Producer
Guadalajara
México
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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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...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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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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I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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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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As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined
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If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in that house. My father would have said Shut up and get to your room. So I thought the only sanctioned tyranny in the world is parenthood and everybody goes Yeah. It's a dictatorship - parenthood.
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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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I try to find inspiration in books, paintings, illustrations and the one thing I try to avoid is just being inspired by other movies, because then you just are talking about movies in movies. I try to talk about movies that are culturally and spiritually a little more diverse.
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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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The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion.
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You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.
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I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.
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You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.
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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.
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Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -
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Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.
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When I stage a violent scene, I try for it to serve a purpose. I do love those things, the makeup effects. But I love them more with the monsters. I never was much of a gore guy. I've always enjoyed just creating monsters.
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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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