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" 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. "

Guillermo del Toro

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

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" Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters. "

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

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

Guillermo del Toro

" I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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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" 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. "

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" I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema. "

Guillermo del Toro

" To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime story to my kids or trying to mount a movie or write a short story or a novel, I take it very seriously. "

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

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" For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul. "

Guillermo del Toro

" It's never hard to cast kids; it's only ever hard to direct them. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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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" 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. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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. "

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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. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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

" 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. "

Guillermo del Toro

" I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films. "

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" Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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

" I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing. "

Guillermo del Toro

" When I did 'Mimic,' it was such a difficult experience to try to make. Believe it or not, I did try to make a really adult giant bug movie. And then, in the course of the process, it kind of died a horrible death and gave birth to the movie that exists now, which now, in retrospect, I like. But it's not the movie I set out to do. "

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

Guillermo del Toro

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

Guillermo del Toro

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

Guillermo del Toro

" I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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

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

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