Guillermo del Toro Quotes

Mexican - Director | October 9, 1964 -

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

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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.

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I'm very grateful of my life and my career and the movies I've been able to make.

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As a producer, I learned not to declare anything about a movie I'm not directing.

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The reason there's a 'Hellboy 2' is not because the studios were passionate about the first one; it's because the numbers made sense.

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'Hellboy 1' was such a huge, huge overperformer on Blu-ray and ancillary markets. It was one of the first movies on Blu-ray; it has multiple editions. All the ancillary markets overperformed everywhere. And the second one did good on all ancillary markets, which now do not exist.

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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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I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage.

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I love what many of my contemporaries are doing, especially people like Terry Gilliam, David Cronenberg, P. T. Anderson, and Alfonso Cuaron.

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I see myself as a perennial expatriate because, frankly, I don't think I fit comfortably in any conventional form of filmmaking, and I feel at the same time, depending on the project, I fit into many different ones.

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

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It's never hard to cast kids; it's only ever hard to direct them.

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