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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

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

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

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

When I did 'Mimic,' it was su...

When I did 'Mimic,' it was such a difficult experience to try to make. Believe it or not, I did try to make a really adult giant bug movie. And then, in the course of the process, it kind of died a horrible death and gave birth to the movie that exists now, which now, in retrospect, I like. But it's not the movie I set out to do.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

Ultimately, you walk life sid...

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.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

For eight years I did effects...

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

Every Sunday on Channel 6 in ...

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 146 quotes

I'm a book guy first, and my ...

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 146 quotes

I started when I was eight, d...

I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

I don't think there is life b...

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.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

Love is love. And it's much b...

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

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

It's only in modern times tha...

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

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

I have a schizophrenic career...

I have a schizophrenic career. I have 'Cronos' and 'The Devil's Backbone' on one hand, and then I have 'Blade 2' and 'Mimic' on the other.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

You cannot convince a Buddhis...

You cannot convince a Buddhist to become a Protestant any more than you can convince a person who embraces realism as the highest form of art that fantasy is an equally important manifestation. It's impossible.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

I think there is a very quiet...

I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

The way they control a popula...

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.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

Any actor I admire and enjoy ...

Any actor I admire and enjoy working with - Sergi Lopez as the bad guy in 'Pan's Labyrinth,' or the little girl who played young Mako in 'Pacific Rim,' it makes no difference - I like actors with a very strong centre.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

I see horror as part of legit...

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

Well, the first thing is that...

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

Guillermo Del Toro 146 quotes

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