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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

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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There are two types of producing deals, and I've had both. I've produced over 20 movies now. You are either watching in horror, as the cars take the curve in the grand prix, or you're enjoying it.
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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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You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.
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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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My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.
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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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We're in three living groups, 'cause even after the world's ended some assholes still can't get along.
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The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion.
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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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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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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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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 try to find inspiration in books, paintings, illustrations and the one thing I try to avoid is just being inspired by other movies, because then you just are talking about movies in movies. I try to talk about movies that are culturally and spiritually a little more diverse.
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Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.
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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
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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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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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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 really believe that in the larger sense, not only today but at all times, you only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.
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