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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
Guillermo del Toro
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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
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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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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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Well I think effects are tools
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Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.
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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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The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion.
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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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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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If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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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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The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.
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You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.
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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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As a child that was disenfranchised from everything, and that was in a world that was the wrong size, run by the wrong people, the wrong morale and the wrong rules, I felt completely outside of that, and I wanted some measure of control, and the measure of control I found was through fear.
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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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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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It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -
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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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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
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