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

Guillermo del Toro

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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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" The movie has to have some essence where you connect with it. The reason I'm doing 'Blade 2' and not 'Alien 4' is because I connect with the universe of 'Blade.' I don't connect with the universe of 'Alien.' Besides, I already did 'Alien 4': It's called 'Mimic.' "

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" I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage. "

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" I love what many of my contemporaries are doing, especially people like Terry Gilliam, David Cronenberg, P. T. Anderson, and Alfonso Cuaron. "

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

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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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" I love monsters the way people worship holy images. To me, they really connect in a very fundamental way to my identity. "

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

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

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" I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death. "

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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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" I'm a lapsed altar boy. "

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" Ultimately, you walk life side-by-side with death, and the Day of the Dead, curiously enough, is about life. It's an impulse that's intrinsic to the Mexican character. "

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" The reason there's a 'Hellboy 2' is not because the studios were passionate about the first one; it's because the numbers made sense. "

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

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" I loved when the superhero genre crosses with horror. Morbius. Those are the guys I gravitated towards. Blade. So for me, to be interested in doing a superhero movie, it would need to be on the dark side or a Jack Kirby property. Kamandi, Demon, Mr. Miracle - I love any Kirby. "

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

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" Well I think effects are tools. "

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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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" I truly try to create beauty and reflection and all of that as conscientiously and judiciously and minutely as I can. "

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

Guillermo del Toro

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

Guillermo del Toro

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

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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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" I think Roald Dahl had the rarest combination of talking to kids about complex emotions, and he was able to show you that the world of kids was sophisticated, complex, and had a lot more darkness than adults ever want to remember. "

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" I love to travel, anywhere in the world. Wherever it is... India... Tibet... wherever. I'll go anywhere. "

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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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" To me, movies are books. They are texts to be consulted. "

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