Mexican - Director | October 9, 1964 -
To me, movies are books. They are texts to be consulted.
Guillermo del Toro
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Love is love. And it's much better than hatred and fear.
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When you start with Super 8, you are everything. You're the DP, the sound man, the effects guy. And what I started understanding, by working for other people, is that the best type of director is someone who rose through the ranks.
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If you want to know how to handle a crew, it's great to be part of a crew.
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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.
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In the case of 'Shape Of Water,' I want it to feel like a song. I wanted people to come out of the movie humming the movie.
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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.
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I'm always very, very careful when the movies happen and where they happen.
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I think that evil is a spiritual engine in our world, our lives, our universe, that functions in order to create good.
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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.
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I have said no to many, many Day of the Dead projects in the past, about 10 or 15, because every time I heard a take it was from someone who didn't know the celebration.
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I think we live in a culture that is actually hedging all of it towards comfort and immediacy, things that scare me. All the things that they sell us as a way of life scare me.
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