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" I was directing before I knew it was called that. "
Guillermo del Toro
Before
Knew
Directing
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" 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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" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
You
Movies
I Am
" I wrote a screenplay for 'The Witches,' which Alfonso Cuaron was producing, but we couldn't get it made! The studio just wouldn't greenlight that movie. It's my favorite Roald Dahl book, 'The Witches,' because I grew up with my grandmother a lot of the time, and the relationship between the boy and the grandmother speaks volumes to me. "
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Boy
Me
" '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. "
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Style
Romance
Connect
" For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made. "
Guillermo del Toro
Got
Made
Movie
" 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. "
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Me
Comfort
Culture
" 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 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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Spiritual
Think
Evil
" It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain. "
Guillermo del Toro
Effort
Adversity
Unnatural
" For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul. "
Guillermo del Toro
Work
Hard Work
Life
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Education
Thought
Health
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Child
You
She
" 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
Me
Living
Hat
" I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death. "
Guillermo del Toro
Think
Living
Dying
" Ultimately, you walk life side-by-side with death, and the Day of the Dead, curiously enough, is about life. It's an impulse that's intrinsic to the Mexican character. "
Guillermo del Toro
Life
You
Walk
" '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
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Damn
Be True
Design
" 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. "
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Kid
Feel
Where
" Well I think effects are tools. "
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Think
Well
Effects
" I want to live in a space that I designed, that is for me. "
Guillermo del Toro
Me
Want
Space
" In Mexico, you're close to death all the time. "
Guillermo del Toro
Mexico
You
Time
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Original
Amazing
Crazy
" 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'd love to come back as the most annoying ghost ever. "
Guillermo del Toro
Love
Most
Annoying
" When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly. "
Guillermo del Toro
Country
Mexico
Slowly
" It's so much easier when you're promoting a movie that you like! "
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Much
Like
Easier
" As a producer, I learned not to declare anything about a movie I'm not directing. "
Guillermo del Toro
Anything
Producer
Directing
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Numbers
Passionate
Reason
" I think that most of the monsters I dream of, I dreamt of as a child. "
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Child
Dream
Monsters
" 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. "
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Think
Story
Devil