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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.
Guillermo del Toro
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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
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Guadalajara
México
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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.
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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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When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.
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Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.
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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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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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There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created.
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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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...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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Survival often feels like an indignity.
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As a child that was disenfranchised from everything, and that was in a world that was the wrong size, run by the wrong people, the wrong morale and the wrong rules, I felt completely outside of that, and I wanted some measure of control, and the measure of control I found was through fear.
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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.
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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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Well I think effects are tools
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I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.
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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
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Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -
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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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And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.
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