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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
Guillermo del Toro
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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
Film Actor
Film Director
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Guadalajara
México
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Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.
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Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
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What makes a man a man? a friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.
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Well I think effects are tools
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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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When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.
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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 the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.
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Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined
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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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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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It's the difference between a parable and a pamphlet. A parable discusses things that are relevant in the past, the future, and the present - regardless of the outcome in the present. A pamphlet, on the other hand, is completely concerned with affecting an outcome in the present, the most immediate present.
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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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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'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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Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.
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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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There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of.
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I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.
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