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Survival often feels like an indignity.

Guillermo del Toro

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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
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Television Actor
Television Producer
Guadalajara
México
Survival
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When somebody says something I don't agree with, I say I'd rather not. It comes to the point where that is the strongest form of resistance. As a Mexican, it took me a long while to learn one word in English, no. And that is the one word we have in common.
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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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Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make the industry poorer, it makes the landscape of cinema poorer, in America. The impossibility to get a good release on a really good European, Latin American, Asian movie is a tragedy.
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If you can be that link to other people that came before you and the ones that come after, then you have to honor that link. If you are doing what somebody else tells you to do and you have success, it's horrible. And if you are doing what other people tell you to do and you fail, it's equally horrible.
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You have to believe the magic to see 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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Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
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