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When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.
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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You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.
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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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Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.
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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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When I stage a violent scene, I try for it to serve a purpose. I do love those things, the makeup effects. But I love them more with the monsters. I never was much of a gore guy. I've always enjoyed just creating monsters.
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You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.
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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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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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Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.
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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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Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
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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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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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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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In a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond.
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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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Well I think effects are tools
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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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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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