Mexican - Director | October 9, 1964 -
I was very attracted to doing 'The Wolverine' in Japan because that's my favorite chapter in the story of Wolverine. But I'm not a superhero guy.
Guillermo del Toro
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I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth.
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I wrote a screenplay for 'The Witches,' which Alfonso Cuaron was producing, but we couldn't get it made! The studio just wouldn't greenlight that movie. It's my favorite Roald Dahl book, 'The Witches,' because I grew up with my grandmother a lot of the time, and the relationship between the boy and the grandmother speaks volumes to me.
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The problem with 'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark' was that it was designed to be a PG-13 movie. It was literally a horror movie for a younger generation. I was trying to do the film equivalent of teenage, young adult readers, and when they gave it an R rating, the movie couldn't sustain an R.
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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.
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There's nothing more political than fantasy.
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I think that most of the monsters I dream of, I dreamt of as a child.
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'Crimson' is written in a very particular style, and it's very precise in the way it graduates into a gothic romance. The souls that will connect with it will connect deeply.
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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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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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I love monsters the way people worship holy images. To me, they really connect in a very fundamental way to my identity.
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I have a very promiscuous relationship with all my objects.
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