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" 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. "

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" More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies. "

Guillermo del Toro

Myself

Painting

Movies

" Everything I do, I do it with the hope that people will watch it more than twice. Whether it's 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Pacific Rim' or the opening of 'The Simpsons,' I do it with that hope. "

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

Guillermo del Toro

Much

Easier

" I'm fortunate enough that my personal life falls into whack with my professional life. My kids love visiting the sets; they love the monsters. "

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

" 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. "

" I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others. "

Guillermo del Toro

Others

" But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling. "

" In Mexico, you're close to death all the time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot. "

Guillermo del Toro

Think

Shoot

" 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

You

Art

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

Guillermo del Toro

Want

Space

" 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 what many of my contemporaries are doing, especially people like Terry Gilliam, David Cronenberg, P. T. Anderson, and Alfonso Cuaron. "

" 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. "

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

" It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism. "

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

" There is beauty and humility in imperfection. "

" I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great. "

Guillermo del Toro

Great

Religion

" The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good. "

" 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. "

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

Guillermo del Toro

Happens

Geek

" Insects are living metaphors for me. They are so alien and so remote and so perfect, but also they are emotionless; they don't have any human or mammalian instincts. They'll eat their young at the drop of a hat; they can eat your house! There's no empathy - none. "

Guillermo del Toro

Living

Hat

" 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. "

" Monsters are evangelical creatures for me. "

Guillermo del Toro

Evangelical

Creatures

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

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