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Guillermo del Toro

Profession : Director

Birth : October 9, 1964

I hope to continue doing TV, and I think that what I've learned on 'The Strain' will come in handy.

Guillermo del Toro

I love monsters the way people worship holy images. To me, they really connect in a very fundamental way to my identity.

Guillermo del Toro

To me, movies are books. They are texts to be consulted.

Guillermo del Toro

A lot of Mexican Catholic dogma, the way it's taught, it's about existing in a state of grace, which I found impossible to reconcile with the much darker view of the world and myself, even as a child.

Guillermo del Toro

Monsters are evangelical creatures for me.

Guillermo del Toro

Love is love. And it's much better than hatred and fear.

Guillermo del Toro

When you start with Super 8, you are everything. You're the DP, the sound man, the effects guy. And what I started understanding, by working for other people, is that the best type of director is someone who rose through the ranks.

Guillermo del Toro

If you want to know how to handle a crew, it's great to be part of a crew.

Guillermo del Toro

Every Sunday on Channel 6 in Guadalajara, where I lived, they dedicated most every Sunday to black-and-white horror films and sci-fi. So I watched them. I watched 'Tarantula.' I watched 'The Monolith Monsters.' I watched all the Universal library.

Guillermo del Toro

I have 7,000 DVDs and Blu-rays. I have thousands of books - thousands - and roughly 15,000 comic books or something like that, hundreds of books about different art movements - the symbolists, the dadaists, the Pre-Raphaelites, the impressionists - you know, that I consult before I start every movie.

Guillermo del Toro

I want to live in a space that I designed, that is for me.

Guillermo del Toro

In the case of 'Shape Of Water,' I want it to feel like a song. I wanted people to come out of the movie humming the movie.

Guillermo del Toro

I have a very promiscuous relationship with all my objects.

Guillermo del Toro

I'm always very, very careful when the movies happen and where they happen.

Guillermo del Toro

I think looking is the essential act of loving. Brothers, fathers and sons, lovers, whatever. What you do when you love someone is look at that person as that person is.

Guillermo del Toro

I think that evil is a spiritual engine in our world, our lives, our universe, that functions in order to create good.

Guillermo del Toro

I believe that we, every day, 24-7, all the days of our lives, we are, all of us, agents of construction and agents of destruction.

Guillermo del Toro

Insects are living metaphors for me. They are so alien and so remote and so perfect, but also they are emotionless; they don't have any human or mammalian instincts. They'll eat their young at the drop of a hat; they can eat your house! There's no empathy - none.

Guillermo del Toro

I'm a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedias. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly obsessed with anatomy, and I thought I had trichinosis, an aneurism, jaundice! And then an encyclopedia of art.

Guillermo del Toro

I have said no to many, many Day of the Dead projects in the past, about 10 or 15, because every time I heard a take it was from someone who didn't know the celebration.

Guillermo del Toro