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" I love the entire 'Constantine' mythology, the 'Dead Man' mythology, the Alex Holland 'Swamp Thing' mythology. "
Guillermo del Toro
Thing
Dead
Love
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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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Many
People
I Love
" I'm a lapsed altar boy. "
Guillermo del Toro
Altar
Boy
" I truly try to create beauty and reflection and all of that as conscientiously and judiciously and minutely as I can. "
Guillermo del Toro
Beauty
Try
Reflection
" For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made. "
Guillermo del Toro
Got
Made
Movie
" Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined. "
Guillermo del Toro
Where
Spectrum
Movie
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Alone
Life
Think
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Morning
Think
Fear
" I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth. "
Guillermo del Toro
Emotional
Interested
Reality
" '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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Exist
Second
Now
" The way they control a population is by pointing at somebody else - whether they're gay, Mexican, Jewish, black - and saying, 'They are different than you. They're the reason you're in the shape you're in. You're not responsible.' And when they exonerate you through vilifying and demonizing someone else, they control you. "
Guillermo del Toro
You
Control
Gay
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Time
Someone
Said
" I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm. "
Guillermo del Toro
Group
Week
Two
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Every Day
Day
Life
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
People
Movies
Love
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Think
You
World
" I don't think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be. "
Guillermo del Toro
Argentina
Cinema
Outside
" I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!' "
Guillermo del Toro
Insect
Greatest
Giant
" To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime story to my kids or trying to mount a movie or write a short story or a novel, I take it very seriously. "
Guillermo del Toro
Daily Life
Spiritual
Art
" I think we live in a culture that is actually hedging all of it towards comfort and immediacy, things that scare me. All the things that they sell us as a way of life scare me. "
Guillermo del Toro
Me
Comfort
Culture
" I have a very promiscuous relationship with all my objects. "
Guillermo del Toro
Objects
Very
Promiscuous
" It's so much easier when you're promoting a movie that you like! "
Guillermo del Toro
Much
Like
Easier
" I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films. "
Guillermo del Toro
Doing
Super
Started
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Child
You
She
" I'm having a lot of fun on Twitter, tweeting about books. "
Guillermo del Toro
About
Twitter
Lot
" What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek. "
Guillermo del Toro
Happens
Me
Geek
" If you want to know how to handle a crew, it's great to be part of a crew. "
Guillermo del Toro
You
Know
Crew
" Well I think effects are tools. "
Guillermo del Toro
Think
Well
Effects
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
You
Design
Work
" I think that evil is a spiritual engine in our world, our lives, our universe, that functions in order to create good. "
Guillermo del Toro
Spiritual
Think
Evil
" Shooting a horror story with kids, I always explain really simply. They may be scary to watch, but they're a lot of fun to shoot. You know, the kids have a great time shooting these movies. Whether you let them watch it is another matter. "
Guillermo del Toro
Fun
Time
Story