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

Guillermo del Toro

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" To me, the thing love and cinema have in common is that they are about seeing. The greatest act of love you can give to anyone is to see them exactly as they are. That's the greatest act of love because you wash away imperfections. "

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" It's never hard to cast kids; it's only ever hard to direct them. "

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" It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain. "

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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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" Love is love. And it's much better than hatred and fear. "

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" When I was a child, I was raised Catholic. Somewhere, I didn't fit with the saints and holy men. I discovered the monsters - in Boris Karloff, I saw a beautiful, innocent creature in a state of grace, sacrificed by sins he did not commit. "

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

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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. "

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" 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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" The problem with 'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark' was that it was designed to be a PG-13 movie. It was literally a horror movie for a younger generation. I was trying to do the film equivalent of teenage, young adult readers, and when they gave it an R rating, the movie couldn't sustain an R. "

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

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" I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit. "

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" I saw a martyr in the Wolf Man, who is the very moving essence of outsiderness, with which I identified fully. "

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

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" Monsters are evangelical creatures for me. "

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" I'm a huge David Fincher fan, and to me, 'Zodiac' is a masterpiece. I re-watch that movie all the time. "

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" I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot. "

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" I think when we wake up in the morning, we can choose between fear and love. Every morning. And every morning, if you choose one, that doesn't define you until the end... The way you end your story is important. It's important that we choose love over fear, because love is the answer. "

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" 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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" I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!' "

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" It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism. "

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" You cannot convince a Buddhist to become a Protestant any more than you can convince a person who embraces realism as the highest form of art that fantasy is an equally important manifestation. It's impossible. "

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" There's nothing more political than fantasy. "

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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. "

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" There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created. "

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" More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies. "

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" What is scary to me is silly to somebody else. CG isn't scary to me. It's like comedy - comedy and horror are quite similar, in that there'll always be somebody who'll say, 'I don't think that was funny.' And it's the same with things that are meant to be scary. "

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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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" I love the entire 'Constantine' mythology, the 'Dead Man' mythology, the Alex Holland 'Swamp Thing' mythology. "

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