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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
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
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Television Actor
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Guadalajara
México
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I don't want to move over to Beverly Hills. My goal is to make the movies I want to make and support the people I want to support. That's it.
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If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.
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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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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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My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.
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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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If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.
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The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.
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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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Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined
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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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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. That no matter what budget you're doing, you should be dreaming bigger than the budget you have, and then it's a matter of reigning it in to the reality. You try to make things count.
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I'm the freaky version of that superhero who says, wherever there is injustice, I shall be there. Whenever there is a difficult project, I'd like to be there.
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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 have to believe the magic to see it.
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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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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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Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.
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