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All Quotes by author - Guillermo del Toro

" A lot of Mexican Catholic dogma, the way it's taught, it's about existing in a state of grace, which I found impossible to reconcile with the much darker view of the world and myself, even as a child. "

" Any actor I admire and enjoy working with - Sergi Lopez as the bad guy in 'Pan's Labyrinth,' or the little girl who played young Mako in 'Pacific Rim,' it makes no difference - I like actors with a very strong centre. "

" As a craftsman, I bust my butt as much for 'Blade 2' as I do for 'Devil's Backbone.' "

" As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't. "

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" Every movie, I complicate. I make the hard choices. I remember when I was pitching 'Pan's Labyrinth:' An anti-fascist fairy tale set in Civil War Spain, where the girl dies at the end. It's not easy. "

" Every project that you write about or read about, it goes through years of hard work. We write a screenplay; we design. Then you submit those and the budget, and it's out of your hands. "

" Every Sunday on Channel 6 in Guadalajara, where I lived, they dedicated most every Sunday to black-and-white horror films and sci-fi. So I watched them. I watched 'Tarantula.' I watched 'The Monolith Monsters.' I watched all the Universal library. "

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" Everything I do, I do it with the hope that people will watch it more than twice. Whether it's 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Pacific Rim' or the opening of 'The Simpsons,' I do it with that hope. "

" For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot. "

" For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made. "

" For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul. "

" '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. "

" Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined. "

" I believe that we, every day, 24-7, all the days of our lives, we are, all of us, agents of construction and agents of destruction. "

" I believe that we will elevate and differentiate the discourse of cinema the more we discuss image creation in specific terms. "

" I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing. "

" I'd love to come back as the most annoying ghost ever. "

" I don't think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be. "

" 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. "

" I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own. "

" I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. "

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

" If you give an actor a green screen, the shot may work, but that green screen will not inspire you on the set as a director or as an actor. "

" If you want to know how to handle a crew, it's great to be part of a crew. "

" I had nightmares as a kid. As an adult, I have very prosaic dreams. "

" 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. "

" I have a lot of artifacts - books on witchcrafts and talismans. I have a big, big collection of original occult books from the 1800s and 1700s, and some of the oldest books on apparitions and vampires. All original printings. It's not that I'm a crazy believer, I just find it to be amazing research material. "

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