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" 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

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

Guillermo del Toro

Want

Space

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was directing before I knew it was called that. "

" 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. "

" 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

New

Always

" 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. "

" I've been going through immigration all my life, and I've been stopped for traffic violations by cops, and they get much more curious about me than the regular guy. The moment they hear my accent, things get a little deeper. "

Guillermo del Toro

Curious

Moment

" To me, the thing love and cinema have in common is that they are about seeing. The greatest act of love you can give to anyone is to see them exactly as they are. That's the greatest act of love because you wash away imperfections. "

Guillermo del Toro

Love

Cinema

" There is beauty and humility in imperfection. "

" As a craftsman, I bust my butt as much for 'Blade 2' as I do for 'Devil's Backbone.' "

" The creature from the black lagoon - I drew that creature almost every day, two, three times a day, for probably my first ten years of life, you know. "

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

" It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain. "

" 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 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

" Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined. "

" If you ask me, I alternate between truly bizarre, what you would call 'Hollywood' movies and truly bizarre, what you would call 'arthouse' movies. "

Guillermo del Toro

Hollywood

Call

" For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot. "

" 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. "

" There's nothing more political than fantasy. "

Guillermo del Toro

Nothing

Than

" 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. "

" There is a heavy Mexican Catholic streak in my movies, and a huge Mexican sense of melodrama. Everything is overwrought, and there's a sense of acceptance of the fantastic in my films, which is innately Mexican. So when people ask, 'How can you define the Mexican-ness of your films?' I go, 'How can I not?' It's all I am. "

" I love the entire 'Constantine' mythology, the 'Dead Man' mythology, the Alex Holland 'Swamp Thing' mythology. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" Most of the time - in 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Devil's Backbone' - I'm talking about my childhood. "

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

" 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

Comfort

Culture