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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.
Guillermo del Toro
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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
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You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.
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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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I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
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