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" I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot. "
Guillermo del Toro
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" It's never hard to cast kids; it's only ever hard to direct them. "
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Only
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" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Inspire
Green
You
" I want to live in a space that I designed, that is for me. "
Guillermo del Toro
Me
Want
Space
" Every Sunday on Channel 6 in Guadalajara, where I lived, they dedicated most every Sunday to black-and-white horror films and sci-fi. So I watched them. I watched 'Tarantula.' I watched 'The Monolith Monsters.' I watched all the Universal library. "
Guillermo del Toro
Black-And-White
Horror
Sunday
" Monsters are evangelical creatures for me. "
Guillermo del Toro
Me
Evangelical
Creatures
" I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema. "
Guillermo del Toro
Rest
Film
Cinema
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Think
Comedy
Horror
" As a craftsman, I bust my butt as much for 'Blade 2' as I do for 'Devil's Backbone.' "
Guillermo del Toro
Much
Devil
Craftsman
" 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
" Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters. "
Guillermo del Toro
Well
First
Identify
" You cannot convince a Buddhist to become a Protestant any more than you can convince a person who embraces realism as the highest form of art that fantasy is an equally important manifestation. It's impossible. "
Guillermo del Toro
Important
Impossible
You
" 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
" When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly. "
Guillermo del Toro
Country
Mexico
Slowly
" Most of the time - in 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Devil's Backbone' - I'm talking about my childhood. "
Guillermo del Toro
Most
Talking
Devil
" To me, movies are books. They are texts to be consulted. "
Guillermo del Toro
Books
Texts
Movies
" 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
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Like
You
Art
" I was directing before I knew it was called that. "
Guillermo del Toro
Before
Knew
Directing
" 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
Soul
Love
Way
" I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen. "
Guillermo del Toro
Things
Power
Quiet
" 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
" I love the entire 'Constantine' mythology, the 'Dead Man' mythology, the Alex Holland 'Swamp Thing' mythology. "
Guillermo del Toro
Thing
Dead
Love
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Time
Boy
Me
" 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
" What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek. "
Guillermo del Toro
Happens
Me
Geek
" I had nightmares as a kid. As an adult, I have very prosaic dreams. "
Guillermo del Toro
Adult
Nightmares
Kid
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Doing
Superhero
Story
" 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
Myself
Impossible
Grace
" I think that most of the monsters I dream of, I dreamt of as a child. "
Guillermo del Toro
Child
Dream
Monsters