Guillermo del Toro Quotes

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Guillermo del Toro

Profession : Director

Birth : October 9, 1964

I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great.

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Ultimately, you walk life side-by-side with death, and the Day of the Dead, curiously enough, is about life. It's an impulse that's intrinsic to the Mexican character.

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In Mexico, you're close to death all the time.

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Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection.

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For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul.

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To me, the thing love and cinema have in common is that they are about seeing. The greatest act of love you can give to anyone is to see them exactly as they are. That's the greatest act of love because you wash away imperfections.

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I think when we wake up in the morning, we can choose between fear and love. Every morning. And every morning, if you choose one, that doesn't define you until the end... The way you end your story is important. It's important that we choose love over fear, because love is the answer.

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There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy.

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I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth.

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If you give an actor a green screen, the shot may work, but that green screen will not inspire you on the set as a director or as an actor.

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Every movie, I complicate. I make the hard choices. I remember when I was pitching 'Pan's Labyrinth:' An anti-fascist fairy tale set in Civil War Spain, where the girl dies at the end. It's not easy.

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Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' was influenced by Lovecraft big time. He wanted to make his monsters Lovecraftian. But I think many other films have been influenced by Lovecraft - like 'Alien,' which is almost an outer-space version of 'At The Mountains Of Madness.'

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The way I love monsters is a Mexican way of loving monsters, which is that I am not judgmental. The Anglo way of seeing things is that monsters are exceptional and bad, and people are good. But in my movies, creatures are taken for granted.

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I think love is the greatest force in the universe. It's shapeless like water. It only takes the shape of things it becomes.

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When I was a kid, monsters made me feel that I could fit somewhere, even if it was... an imaginary place where the grotesque and the abnormal were celebrated and accepted.

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The great thing about Roald Dahl is he tackled the big questions of life without any fear of being shocking or brutal, because he knew the kids could take it.

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I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!'

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It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.

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I don't think there is life beyond death. I don't. But I do believe that we get this clarity in the last minute of our life. The titles we achieved, the honors we managed, they all vanish. You are left alone with you and your deeds and the things you didn't do.

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You cannot dictate what people find funny, what people find attractive, or what people find scary. There is not a norm.

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