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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.

Guillermo del Toro

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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
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Guadalajara
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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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You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.
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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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I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.
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When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.
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For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.
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I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
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The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion.
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Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -
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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish– thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust.
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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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Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, We love the movie but it's too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids..
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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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I try to find inspiration in books, paintings, illustrations and the one thing I try to avoid is just being inspired by other movies, because then you just are talking about movies in movies. I try to talk about movies that are culturally and spiritually a little more diverse.
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There are two types of producing deals, and I've had both. I've produced over 20 movies now. You are either watching in horror, as the cars take the curve in the grand prix, or you're enjoying it.
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Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined
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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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The idea for me is that if the movie connects with you the way I want it to connect with you, you should be experiencing both the horror and the wonder as a child would. From a child's point of view. When we're kids, brutality registers differently than when we are adults. Because as adults, we get too used to violence.
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