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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
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Television Producer
Guadalajara
México
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Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the movie industry: So is a video game.
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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.
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You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.
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With supernatural things, I have heard ghosts, but I've never seen ghosts. I do seek ghosts and I would love to see one, but I would crap my pants.
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Well I think effects are tools
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I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is the sin of banality and comfort. Those things are in my movies, but also my movies are quite the fruit of somebody who defines himself as an agnostic.
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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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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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Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
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Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.
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I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue
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With every movie I produce, I learn something. I watch the directors. It's like the relationship you have with your children. I'm there to learn from my daughters. They are the perfect spirits.
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Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined
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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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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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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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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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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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You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.
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The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.
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