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" I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!' "
Guillermo del Toro
Insect
Greatest
Giant
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" I love what many of my contemporaries are doing, especially people like Terry Gilliam, David Cronenberg, P. T. Anderson, and Alfonso Cuaron. "
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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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Day
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Construction
" Love is love. And it's much better than hatred and fear. "
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Better
Love Is
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" 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. "
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Twice
People
Hope
" I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth. "
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Emotional
Interested
Reality
" To me, movies are books. They are texts to be consulted. "
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Books
Texts
Movies
" I'm always very, very careful when the movies happen and where they happen. "
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Always
" '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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Exist
Second
Now
" They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do. "
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I Am
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Experience
" There's nothing more political than fantasy. "
Guillermo del Toro
Nothing
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More
" 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
" I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage. "
Guillermo del Toro
Marriage
Work
Love
" 'Crimson' is written in a very particular style, and it's very precise in the way it graduates into a gothic romance. The souls that will connect with it will connect deeply. "
Guillermo del Toro
Style
Romance
Connect
" Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection. "
Guillermo del Toro
Imperfection
Saints
Patron
" 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'm having a lot of fun on Twitter, tweeting about books. "
Guillermo del Toro
About
Twitter
Lot
" In Mexico, you're close to death all the time. "
Guillermo del Toro
Mexico
You
Time
" When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly. "
Guillermo del Toro
Country
Mexico
Slowly
" I don't think there is life beyond death. I don't. But I do believe that we get this clarity in the last minute of our life. The titles we achieved, the honors we managed, they all vanish. You are left alone with you and your deeds and the things you didn't do. "
Guillermo del Toro
Alone
Life
Think
" I'm very grateful of my life and my career and the movies I've been able to make. "
Guillermo del Toro
Movies
Life
Career
" Every movie, I complicate. I make the hard choices. I remember when I was pitching 'Pan's Labyrinth:' An anti-fascist fairy tale set in Civil War Spain, where the girl dies at the end. It's not easy. "
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End
Girl
Remember
" 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
You
Control
Gay
" I think looking is the essential act of loving. Brothers, fathers and sons, lovers, whatever. What you do when you love someone is look at that person as that person is. "
Guillermo del Toro
Looking
Love
Look
" Most of the time - in 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Devil's Backbone' - I'm talking about my childhood. "
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Most
Talking
Devil
" 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. "
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Problem
Trying
Dark
" 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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Time
Someone
Said
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Keep
Ideas
Myself
" 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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You
Alien
Universe
" I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing. "
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Grab
Camera
Tell
" I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own. "
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Fear