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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. "

Guillermo del Toro

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" 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. "

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

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" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy. "

" I was very attracted to doing 'The Wolverine' in Japan because that's my favorite chapter in the story of Wolverine. But I'm not a superhero guy. "

" 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. "

" The great thing about Roald Dahl is he tackled the big questions of life without any fear of being shocking or brutal, because he knew the kids could take it. "

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

" I think that evil is a spiritual engine in our world, our lives, our universe, that functions in order to create good. "

" 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

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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. "

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

Guillermo del Toro

Happens

Geek

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Monsters are evangelical creatures for me. "

Guillermo del Toro

Evangelical

Creatures

" I have a schizophrenic career. I have 'Cronos' and 'The Devil's Backbone' on one hand, and then I have 'Blade 2' and 'Mimic' on the other. "

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

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

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

" As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't. "

" I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films. "

" 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. "

" I hope to continue doing TV, and I think that what I've learned on 'The Strain' will come in handy. "

" I'm very grateful of my life and my career and the movies I've been able to make. "

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