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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.

Guillermo del Toro

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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
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