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" I'd love to come back as the most annoying ghost ever. "
Guillermo del Toro
Love
Most
Annoying
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" 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. "
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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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" It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism. "
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" I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others. "
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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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Now
" It's never hard to cast kids; it's only ever hard to direct them. "
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Kids
" Every project that you write about or read about, it goes through years of hard work. We write a screenplay; we design. Then you submit those and the budget, and it's out of your hands. "
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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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" As a craftsman, I bust my butt as much for 'Blade 2' as I do for 'Devil's Backbone.' "
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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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" It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain. "
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Adversity
Unnatural
" I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!' "
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Insect
Greatest
Giant
" 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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Inspire
Green
You
" 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. "
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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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Religion
" They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do. "
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I Am
You
Experience
" I had nightmares as a kid. As an adult, I have very prosaic dreams. "
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Adult
Nightmares
Kid
" 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
Me
Cinema
" Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters. "
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Well
First
Identify
" 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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Comfort
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" You cannot convince a Buddhist to become a Protestant any more than you can convince a person who embraces realism as the highest form of art that fantasy is an equally important manifestation. It's impossible. "
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" Every Sunday on Channel 6 in Guadalajara, where I lived, they dedicated most every Sunday to black-and-white horror films and sci-fi. So I watched them. I watched 'Tarantula.' I watched 'The Monolith Monsters.' I watched all the Universal library. "
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Black-And-White
Horror
Sunday
" 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. "
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Group
Week
Two
" What is scary to me is silly to somebody else. CG isn't scary to me. It's like comedy - comedy and horror are quite similar, in that there'll always be somebody who'll say, 'I don't think that was funny.' And it's the same with things that are meant to be scary. "
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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. "
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You
Movies
I Am
" More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies. "
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Painting
Movies
" What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek. "
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Me
Geek
" 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'm having a lot of fun on Twitter, tweeting about books. "
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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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