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" 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. "

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

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Religion

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

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

" The creature from the black lagoon - I drew that creature almost every day, two, three times a day, for probably my first ten years of life, you know. "

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

" Making a film is like raising a child. You cannot raise a child to be liked by everyone. You raise a child to excel, and you teach the child to be true to his own nature. There will be people who'll dislike your child because he or she is who they are, and there will be people who'll love your child immensely for the very same reason. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think love is the greatest force in the universe. It's shapeless like water. It only takes the shape of things it becomes. "

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

Guillermo del Toro

Happens

Geek

" I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue. "

Guillermo del Toro

Dialogue

Presence

" 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

" I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth. "

" I have said no to many, many Day of the Dead projects in the past, about 10 or 15, because every time I heard a take it was from someone who didn't know the celebration. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" TV now, you have to plan it: you structure it for binge watching, meaning you structure the whole season like a three-act play. You have a first act - the first third of the season - second act is the middle third, and you structure it like that. "

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

" 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. "

" In Mexico, you're close to death all the time. "

" 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 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. "

" There's nothing more political than fantasy. "

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Nothing

Than

" I wrote a screenplay for 'The Witches,' which Alfonso Cuaron was producing, but we couldn't get it made! The studio just wouldn't greenlight that movie. It's my favorite Roald Dahl book, 'The Witches,' because I grew up with my grandmother a lot of the time, and the relationship between the boy and the grandmother speaks volumes to me. "

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Boy

" The way I love monsters is a Mexican way of loving monsters, which is that I am not judgmental. The Anglo way of seeing things is that monsters are exceptional and bad, and people are good. But in my movies, creatures are taken for granted. "

" I would have killed to do 'Beauty And The Beast' at Warners, which went away. I would have killed to do 'The Witches' at Warners that went away. God knows there are many, many of them. All I can do is diligently do the screenplay, diligently do the design work, deliver a budget, and then await a decision. "

" Monsters are evangelical creatures for me. "

Guillermo del Toro

Evangelical

Creatures