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Guillermo del Toro

Profession : Director

Birth : October 9, 1964

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.

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As a craftsman, I bust my butt as much for 'Blade 2' as I do for 'Devil's Backbone.'

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I'm a lapsed altar boy.

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There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created.

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The creature from the black lagoon - I drew that creature almost every day, two, three times a day, for probably my first ten years of life, you know.

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I would have killed to do 'Beauty And The Beast' at Warners, which went away. I would have killed to do 'The Witches' at Warners that went away. God knows there are many, many of them. All I can do is diligently do the screenplay, diligently do the design work, deliver a budget, and then await a decision.

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I truly try to create beauty and reflection and all of that as conscientiously and judiciously and minutely as I can.

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I like monsters, and when the monster is a superhero, it's a byproduct. Like Hellboy, the Hulk, Man-Thing, Swamp Thing, Sandman, Constantine, Demon, Dr. Strange, Spectre, Deadman. Those are the superheroes I followed as a kid religiously.

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I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.

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I had nightmares as a kid. As an adult, I have very prosaic dreams.

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The way they control a population is by pointing at somebody else - whether they're gay, Mexican, Jewish, black - and saying, 'They are different than you. They're the reason you're in the shape you're in. You're not responsible.' And when they exonerate you through vilifying and demonizing someone else, they control you.

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I saw a martyr in the Wolf Man, who is the very moving essence of outsiderness, with which I identified fully.

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There is a heavy Mexican Catholic streak in my movies, and a huge Mexican sense of melodrama. Everything is overwrought, and there's a sense of acceptance of the fantastic in my films, which is innately Mexican. So when people ask, 'How can you define the Mexican-ness of your films?' I go, 'How can I not?' It's all I am.

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Making a film is like raising a child. You cannot raise a child to be liked by everyone. You raise a child to excel, and you teach the child to be true to his own nature. There will be people who'll dislike your child because he or she is who they are, and there will be people who'll love your child immensely for the very same reason.

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When I was a child, I was raised Catholic. Somewhere, I didn't fit with the saints and holy men. I discovered the monsters - in Boris Karloff, I saw a beautiful, innocent creature in a state of grace, sacrificed by sins he did not commit.

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I don't think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be.

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It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.

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There's nothing more political than fantasy.

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I was directing before I knew it was called that.

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I'm fortunate enough that my personal life falls into whack with my professional life. My kids love visiting the sets; they love the monsters.

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