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I think part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I'd rather deal with restrictions of budget. It's better to feel free within any budget.
Guillermo del Toro
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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
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You can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I'm going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.
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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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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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I think that during the shoot, you should never be there, unless something goes really wrong and as producer, you're responsible. The sign you did your job right is if you are not there.
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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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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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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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The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully it simply flies on.
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Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined
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I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
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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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Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
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The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion.
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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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If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.
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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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