Mexican - Director | October 9, 1964 -
I saw a martyr in the Wolf Man, who is the very moving essence of outsiderness, with which I identified fully.
Guillermo del Toro
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I'm a lapsed altar boy.
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For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.
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I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.
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When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.
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I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.
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Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined.
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For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror.
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But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.
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Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
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Well I think effects are tools.
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