Quotes by Guillermo del Toro

About Guillermo del Toro:

Guillermo del Toro Gómez is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, and novelist. In his filmmaking career, del Toro has alternated between Spanish-language dark fantasy pieces, such as the gothic horror film The Devil's Backbone (2001) and Pan's Labyrinth (2006), and more mainstream American action movies, such as the vampire superhero action film Blade II (2002), the supernatural superhero film Hellboy (2004), its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), and the science fiction monster film Pacific Rim (2013).
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In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.

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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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En ausencia de la luz prevalece la oscuridad

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

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God is an energy, rather than an anthropomorphic being, and God's language is biology. Red blood cells, the principle of magnetic attraction, neurological synapse: each is a miracle, and in each is the presence and flow of God.

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Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.

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Kelly was not going to remove her glasses. No matter what the television said about it being safe to do during the 'totality'. The television also told her she wouldn't age if she bought expensive creams and pills.

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THE THING WAS AN EXPERT IN HORROR, BUT THIS HUMAN HORROR INDEED EXCEEDED ANY OTHER POSSIBLE FATE. NOT ONLY BECAUSE IT WAS WITHOUT MERCY, BUT BECAUSE IT WAS ACTED UPON RATIONALLY AND WITHOUT COMPULSION. IT WAS A CHOICE. THE KILLING WAS UNRELATED TO TH...

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They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do.

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The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

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I'm a lapsed altar boy.

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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

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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 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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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 I think effects are tools.

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In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old.

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Author Bio

  • NameGuillermo del Toro
  • DescriptionMexican film director
  • BornOctober 9, 1964
  • CountryMexico
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Screenwriter; Novelist; Film Producer; Actor
  • AwardsNebula Award