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If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
Guillermo del Toro
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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
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When somebody says something I don't agree with, I say I'd rather not. It comes to the point where that is the strongest form of resistance. As a Mexican, it took me a long while to learn one word in English, no. And that is the one word we have in common.
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