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I have 7,000 DVDs and Blu-ray...

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 146 quotes

I feel that your ambitions sh...

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.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

I love REAL set construction ...

I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

You live and die two or three...

You live and die two or three times making a movie. First, you write it, and the first pivotal moment comes when you can get it made. The second is in the process of making it, when the movie reveals itself to you, its flaws and its virtues. Then the most unnerving moment is when that movie is then launched into the world. It’s like bringing your kid to the first day at school and somebody points out that it has bowlegs, it is cross-eyed, or it’s gorgeous. You feel very exposed.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

For horror to work, you have ...

For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

I only produce things that ha...

I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna understand the instincts that are going to inform the story.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

I have a lot of artifacts - b...

I have a lot of artifacts - books on witchcrafts and talismans. I have a big, big collection of original occult books from the 1800s and 1700s, and some of the oldest books on apparitions and vampires. All original printings. It's not that I'm a crazy believer, I just find it to be amazing research material.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

The great thing about Roald D...

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.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

I love the entire 'Constantin...

I love the entire 'Constantine' mythology, the 'Dead Man' mythology, the Alex Holland 'Swamp Thing' mythology.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

Shooting a horror story with ...

Shooting a horror story with kids, I always explain really simply. They may be scary to watch, but they're a lot of fun to shoot. You know, the kids have a great time shooting these movies. Whether you let them watch it is another matter.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

I love to travel, anywhere in...

I love to travel, anywhere in the world. Wherever it is... India... Tibet... wherever. I'll go anywhere.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

As a craftsman, I bust my but...

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

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

If you ask me, I alternate be...

If you ask me, I alternate between truly bizarre, what you would call 'Hollywood' movies and truly bizarre, what you would call 'arthouse' movies.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

What happens to me is that I ...

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

When I was a teenager there w...

When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

Every movie, I complicate. I ...

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.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

They're getting more and more...

They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

The creature from the black l...

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.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' was ...

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.'

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

What is scary to me is silly ...

What is scary to me is silly to somebody else. CG isn't scary to me. It's like comedy - comedy and horror are quite similar, in that there'll always be somebody who'll say, 'I don't think that was funny.' And it's the same with things that are meant to be scary.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

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