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I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
Guillermo del Toro
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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
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Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.
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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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Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined
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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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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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Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.
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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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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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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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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 have fat-guy syndrome. If they give me $50 million to make a movie, I'll try to make it look like it cost a hundred. If they give me $60 million, I'll try to make it look like it cost $120.
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When somebody says something I don't agree with, I say I'd rather not. It comes to the point where that is the strongest form of resistance. As a Mexican, it took me a long while to learn one word in English, no. And that is the one word we have in common.
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When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.
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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.
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For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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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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My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear.
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