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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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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
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Television Actor
Television Producer
Guadalajara
México
Mexico
Slowly
Teenager
Video
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Country

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My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.
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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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Survival often feels like an indignity.
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I find I'm waking up really early now, just to read. Waking up at ungodly hours. But I try to keep up, religiously. When I was a kid, it used to be a book a day. Then a book a week. Now it's like a book every two weeks. But I read every day.
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If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in that house. My father would have said Shut up and get to your room. So I thought the only sanctioned tyranny in the world is parenthood and everybody goes Yeah. It's a dictatorship - parenthood.
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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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I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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