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When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.
Guillermo del Toro
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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
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In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish– thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust.
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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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My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.
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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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: There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence.
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You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.
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As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.
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What makes a man a man? a friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.
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The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully it simply flies on.
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When I stage a violent scene, I try for it to serve a purpose. I do love those things, the makeup effects. But I love them more with the monsters. I never was much of a gore guy. I've always enjoyed just creating monsters.
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I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined
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My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear.
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There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of.
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Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.
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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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I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.
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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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When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.
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