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The movies that I do are in love with cinema, and I try to show that I am in love with cinema. I want them to be, in other ways, drinking from other sources.

Guillermo del Toro

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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
Film Actor
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Television Actor
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In a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond.
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Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.
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It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in that house. My father would have said Shut up and get to your room. So I thought the only sanctioned tyranny in the world is parenthood and everybody goes Yeah. It's a dictatorship - parenthood.
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I have fat-guy syndrome. If they give me $50 million to make a movie, I'll try to make it look like it cost a hundred. If they give me $60 million, I'll try to make it look like it cost $120.
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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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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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If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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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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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.
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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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We're in three living groups, 'cause even after the world's ended some assholes still can't get along.
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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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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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Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
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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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The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully it simply flies on.
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Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -
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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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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
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