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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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I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.
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Oliver Stone will never be happy with the first take. He wants more than that. When you’re delivering your lines, he’ll stop you and tell you some kind of riddle about the character and you have to go away and figure that out. If you’re hoping for him to give you all the answers, then you’re in for a long day.
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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.
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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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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
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I don't try to define the cosmos, I know it's unknowable, but I can understand my place in the world and my place in the universe through a mixture of Taoism, Catholicism, Zen or whatever I have at hand.
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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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I really believe that in the larger sense, not only today but at all times, you only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.
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There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of.
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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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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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My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.
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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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Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.
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Survival often feels like an indignity.
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For any actor to have Oliver Stone call him or her up… It’s a compliment. He expects you to be on your toes. If you’re not, he pokes at you until you react. He’s very provocative, creatively. It started like a lot of hard work, but it ended up a lot of fun.
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As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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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.
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