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

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. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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

" 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. "

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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

" I think that most of the monsters I dream of, I dreamt of as a child. "

Guillermo del Toro

" I see myself as a perennial expatriate because, frankly, I don't think I fit comfortably in any conventional form of filmmaking, and I feel at the same time, depending on the project, I fit into many different ones. "

Guillermo del Toro

" I'm a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedias. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly obsessed with anatomy, and I thought I had trichinosis, an aneurism, jaundice! And then an encyclopedia of art. "

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" I'd love to come back as the most annoying ghost ever. "

Guillermo del Toro

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

Guillermo del Toro

" When I was a kid, monsters made me feel that I could fit somewhere, even if it was... an imaginary place where the grotesque and the abnormal were celebrated and accepted. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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. "

Guillermo del Toro

" I like monsters, and when the monster is a superhero, it's a byproduct. Like Hellboy, the Hulk, Man-Thing, Swamp Thing, Sandman, Constantine, Demon, Dr. Strange, Spectre, Deadman. Those are the superheroes I followed as a kid religiously. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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. "

Guillermo del Toro

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

Guillermo del Toro

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

Guillermo del Toro

" It's so much easier when you're promoting a movie that you like! "

Guillermo del Toro

" I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!' "

Guillermo del Toro

" Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection. "

Guillermo del Toro

" I don't think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be. "

Guillermo del Toro

" To me, movies are books. They are texts to be consulted. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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. "

Guillermo del Toro

" If you want to know how to handle a crew, it's great to be part of a crew. "

Guillermo del Toro

" I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen. "

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'm always very, very careful when the movies happen and where they happen. "

Guillermo del Toro

" There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created. "

Guillermo del Toro

" There's nothing more political than fantasy. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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. "

Guillermo del Toro

" There is beauty and humility in imperfection. "

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