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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.

Guillermo del Toro

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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Television Actor
Television Producer
Guadalajara
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Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
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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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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 can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.
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Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.
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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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Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -
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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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My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.
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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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I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
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