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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. "

Guillermo del Toro

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I believe that we, every day, 24-7, all the days of our lives, we are, all of us, agents of construction and agents of destruction. "

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" Any actor I admire and enjoy working with - Sergi Lopez as the bad guy in 'Pan's Labyrinth,' or the little girl who played young Mako in 'Pacific Rim,' it makes no difference - I like actors with a very strong centre. "

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

Guillermo del Toro

" 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 that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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

" 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. "

Guillermo del Toro

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

Guillermo del Toro

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

Guillermo del Toro

" 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. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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. "

Guillermo del Toro

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

Guillermo del Toro

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

Guillermo del Toro

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

Guillermo del Toro

" 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. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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

" I want to live in a space that I designed, that is for me. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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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" 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. "

Guillermo del Toro

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

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" I was a kid when I read Jane Eyre and fell in love with that universe. I didn't have the acumen to say the prose is old or the prose is too complex. I just fell in love with Jane's very lonely soul, much the same way I fell in love with Frankenstein's creature for the same reason. Those old souls exist in every decade in every century. "

Guillermo del Toro

" There's nothing more political than fantasy. "

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