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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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Grab
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Tell
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" I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!' "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" Monsters are evangelical creatures for me. "
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" I'm always very, very careful when the movies happen and where they happen. "
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" Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' was influenced by Lovecraft big time. He wanted to make his monsters Lovecraftian. But I think many other films have been influenced by Lovecraft - like 'Alien,' which is almost an outer-space version of 'At The Mountains Of Madness.' "
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" 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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Death
" For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul. "
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Hard Work
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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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" As a producer, I learned not to declare anything about a movie I'm not directing. "
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" When I was a child, I was raised Catholic. Somewhere, I didn't fit with the saints and holy men. I discovered the monsters - in Boris Karloff, I saw a beautiful, innocent creature in a state of grace, sacrificed by sins he did not commit. "
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" I think Roald Dahl had the rarest combination of talking to kids about complex emotions, and he was able to show you that the world of kids was sophisticated, complex, and had a lot more darkness than adults ever want to remember. "
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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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" Shooting a horror story with kids, I always explain really simply. They may be scary to watch, but they're a lot of fun to shoot. You know, the kids have a great time shooting these movies. Whether you let them watch it is another matter. "
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