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" I'm always very, very careful when the movies happen and where they happen. "

Guillermo del Toro

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" 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. "

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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 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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" I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own. "

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

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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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" If you ask me, I alternate between truly bizarre, what you would call 'Hollywood' movies and truly bizarre, what you would call 'arthouse' movies. "

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'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth. "

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

" 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 think that evil is a spiritual engine in our world, our lives, our universe, that functions in order to create good. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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

" 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

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

Guillermo del Toro

" Well I think effects are tools. "

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

" 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

" I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!' "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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. "

Guillermo del Toro

" The problem with 'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark' was that it was designed to be a PG-13 movie. It was literally a horror movie for a younger generation. I was trying to do the film equivalent of teenage, young adult readers, and when they gave it an R rating, the movie couldn't sustain an R. "

Guillermo del Toro

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

Guillermo del Toro

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

Guillermo del Toro

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

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. "

Guillermo del Toro

" As a producer, I learned not to declare anything about a movie I'm not directing. "

Guillermo del Toro

" More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies. "

Guillermo del Toro