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" If you want to know how to handle a crew, it's great to be part of a crew. "
Guillermo del Toro
You
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" I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth. "
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" 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
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Important
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You
" 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
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
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" 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
" I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot. "
Guillermo del Toro
Think
Shoot
More
" There is beauty and humility in imperfection. "
Guillermo del Toro
Humility
Beauty
Imperfection
" I want to live in a space that I designed, that is for me. "
Guillermo del Toro
Me
Want
Space
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Think
You
World
" For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot. "
Guillermo del Toro
Devil
Loved
Backbone
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Think
Story
Devil
" 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
Me
Comfort
Culture
" What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek. "
Guillermo del Toro
Happens
Me
Geek
" 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
Me
Moment
" '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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Style
Romance
Connect
" I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen. "
Guillermo del Toro
Things
Power
Quiet
" 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
Filmmaking
Think
Myself
" 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
" In the case of 'Shape Of Water,' I want it to feel like a song. I wanted people to come out of the movie humming the movie. "
Guillermo del Toro
Like
Water
Want
" To me, movies are books. They are texts to be consulted. "
Guillermo del Toro
Books
Texts
Movies
" 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
" When you start with Super 8, you are everything. You're the DP, the sound man, the effects guy. And what I started understanding, by working for other people, is that the best type of director is someone who rose through the ranks. "
Guillermo del Toro
You
Start
Rose
" I believe that we, every day, 24-7, all the days of our lives, we are, all of us, agents of construction and agents of destruction. "
Guillermo del Toro
Day
Believe
Construction
" Love is love. And it's much better than hatred and fear. "
Guillermo del Toro
Better
Love Is
Love
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Beauty
Decision
Work
" 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
" In Mexico, you're close to death all the time. "
Guillermo del Toro
Mexico
You
Time
" 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. "
Guillermo del Toro
Every Day
Day
Life
" Any actor I admire and enjoy working with - Sergi Lopez as the bad guy in 'Pan's Labyrinth,' or the little girl who played young Mako in 'Pacific Rim,' it makes no difference - I like actors with a very strong centre. "
Guillermo del Toro
Young
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