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" 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. "

Guillermo del Toro

Myself

Impossible

Grace

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Guillermo del Toro

You

Art

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" I've been going through immigration all my life, and I've been stopped for traffic violations by cops, and they get much more curious about me than the regular guy. The moment they hear my accent, things get a little deeper. "

Guillermo del Toro

Curious

Moment

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

" There is a heavy Mexican Catholic streak in my movies, and a huge Mexican sense of melodrama. Everything is overwrought, and there's a sense of acceptance of the fantastic in my films, which is innately Mexican. So when people ask, 'How can you define the Mexican-ness of your films?' I go, 'How can I not?' It's all I am. "

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

Guillermo del Toro

Hollywood

Call

" I'm a lapsed altar boy. "

Guillermo del Toro

Altar

Boy

" 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. "

Guillermo del Toro

Water

Want

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Guillermo del Toro

Think

Shoot

" I'm fortunate enough that my personal life falls into whack with my professional life. My kids love visiting the sets; they love the monsters. "

" '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. "

" I want to live in a space that I designed, that is for me. "

Guillermo del Toro

Want

Space

" You cannot dictate what people find funny, what people find attractive, or what people find scary. There is not a norm. "

" I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great. "

Guillermo del Toro

Great

Religion

" 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. "

" 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. "