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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

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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Pantomime
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The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.
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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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...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -
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Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.
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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.
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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
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I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
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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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: There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence.
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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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If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully it simply flies on.
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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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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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Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined
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There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of.
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