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Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the movie industry: So is a video game.

Guillermo del Toro

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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.
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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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There are times when you are in despair, because in order not to betray who you are, you don't compromise, you don't make movies that would be very lucrative or prestigious or easily understood. And yet I stay attached to the most uncanny premises. It's never been easy.
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I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
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Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.
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I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. That no matter what budget you're doing, you should be dreaming bigger than the budget you have, and then it's a matter of reigning it in to the reality. You try to make things count.
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Survival often feels like an indignity.
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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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You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.
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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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