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If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling.

Guillermo del Toro

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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
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Television Actor
Television Producer
Guadalajara
México
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I find I'm waking up really early now, just to read. Waking up at ungodly hours. But I try to keep up, religiously. When I was a kid, it used to be a book a day. Then a book a week. Now it's like a book every two weeks. But I read every day.
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