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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.
Guillermo del Toro
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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
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Guadalajara
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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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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With every movie I produce, I learn something. I watch the directors. It's like the relationship you have with your children. I'm there to learn from my daughters. They are the perfect spirits.
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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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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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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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For any actor to have Oliver Stone call him or her up Its a compliment. He expects you to be on your toes. If youre not, he pokes at you until you react. Hes very provocative, creatively. It started like a lot of hard work, but it ended up a lot of fun.
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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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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 believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.
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When I see a short schedule, my question to the director is, are you really comfortable with this, or are you doing it to be a good boy? At the end, you only win the medal if the film is good, you don't win a medal if the movie is on time.
Guillermo del Toro
You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.
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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 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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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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