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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
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Television Producer
Guadalajara
México
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The movies that I do are in love with cinema, and I try to show that I am in love with cinema. I want them to be, in other ways, drinking from other sources.
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I find I'm waking up really early now, just to read. Waking up at ungodly hours. But I try to keep up, religiously. When I was a kid, it used to be a book a day. Then a book a week. Now it's like a book every two weeks. But I read every day.
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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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Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, We love the movie but it's too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids..
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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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Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -
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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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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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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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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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My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.
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We're in three living groups, 'cause even after the world's ended some assholes still can't get along.
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You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.
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Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make the industry poorer, it makes the landscape of cinema poorer, in America. The impossibility to get a good release on a really good European, Latin American, Asian movie is a tragedy.
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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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Well I think effects are tools
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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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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 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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