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Guillermo del Toro
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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Television Actor
Television Producer
Guadalajara
México
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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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If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling.
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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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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
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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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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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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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I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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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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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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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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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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I think that during the shoot, you should never be there, unless something goes really wrong and as producer, you're responsible. The sign you did your job right is if you are not there.
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Survival often feels like an indignity.
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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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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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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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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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