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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
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Guadalajara
México
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I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.
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The movies that I do are in love with cinema, and I try to show that I am in love with cinema. I want them to be, in other ways, drinking from other sources.
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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
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Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
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There are times when you are in despair, because in order not to betray who you are, you don't compromise, you don't make movies that would be very lucrative or prestigious or easily understood. And yet I stay attached to the most uncanny premises. It's never been easy.
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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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When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.
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I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.
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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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When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.
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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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: 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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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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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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Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.
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Well I think effects are tools
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Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, We love the movie but it's too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids..
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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.
Guillermo del Toro
My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.
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You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.
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