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" I'm a huge David Fincher fan, and to me, 'Zodiac' is a masterpiece. I re-watch that movie all the time. "

Guillermo del Toro

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" I'm very grateful of my life and my career and the movies I've been able to make. "

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" I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit. "

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" In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old. "

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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. "

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" I have a schizophrenic career. I have 'Cronos' and 'The Devil's Backbone' on one hand, and then I have 'Blade 2' and 'Mimic' on the other. "

Guillermo del Toro

" In Mexico, you're close to death all the time. "

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" 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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" 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 had nightmares as a kid. As an adult, I have very prosaic dreams. "

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" I don't think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be. "

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" It's so much easier when you're promoting a movie that you like! "

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

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

Guillermo del Toro

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

Guillermo del Toro

" It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain. "

Guillermo del Toro

" I believe that we will elevate and differentiate the discourse of cinema the more we discuss image creation in specific terms. "

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" For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made. "

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" I'm having a lot of fun on Twitter, tweeting about books. "

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" I truly try to create beauty and reflection and all of that as conscientiously and judiciously and minutely as I can. "

Guillermo del Toro

" I'd love to come back as the most annoying ghost ever. "

Guillermo del Toro

" I like monsters, and when the monster is a superhero, it's a byproduct. Like Hellboy, the Hulk, Man-Thing, Swamp Thing, Sandman, Constantine, Demon, Dr. Strange, Spectre, Deadman. Those are the superheroes I followed as a kid religiously. "

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" I love to travel, anywhere in the world. Wherever it is... India... Tibet... wherever. I'll go anywhere. "

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 saw a martyr in the Wolf Man, who is the very moving essence of outsiderness, with which I identified fully. "

Guillermo del Toro

" I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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. "

Guillermo del Toro

" I think looking is the essential act of loving. Brothers, fathers and sons, lovers, whatever. What you do when you love someone is look at that person as that person is. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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

" 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. "

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