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

Guillermo del Toro

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" I'm a lapsed altar boy. "

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" When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" '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. "

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" 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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" 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. "

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" There is beauty and humility in imperfection. "

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

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

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" For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made. "

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" I have a lot of artifacts - books on witchcrafts and talismans. I have a big, big collection of original occult books from the 1800s and 1700s, and some of the oldest books on apparitions and vampires. All original printings. It's not that I'm a crazy believer, I just find it to be amazing research material. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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

" Monsters are evangelical creatures for me. "

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" I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. "

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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. "

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

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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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" I saw a martyr in the Wolf Man, who is the very moving essence of outsiderness, with which I identified fully. "

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" 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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" Making a film is like raising a child. You cannot raise a child to be liked by everyone. You raise a child to excel, and you teach the child to be true to his own nature. There will be people who'll dislike your child because he or she is who they are, and there will be people who'll love your child immensely for the very same reason. "

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

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" 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. "

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