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

Guillermo del Toro

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" 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. "

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" 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

" 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. "

Guillermo del Toro

" For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot. "

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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

" 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. "

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" There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy. "

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" 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. "

Guillermo del Toro

" Well I think effects are tools. "

Guillermo del Toro

" '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. "

Guillermo del Toro

" The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good. "

Guillermo del Toro

" I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. "

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 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. "

Guillermo del Toro

" There's nothing more political than fantasy. "

Guillermo del Toro

" I loved when the superhero genre crosses with horror. Morbius. Those are the guys I gravitated towards. Blade. So for me, to be interested in doing a superhero movie, it would need to be on the dark side or a Jack Kirby property. Kamandi, Demon, Mr. Miracle - I love any Kirby. "

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

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

Guillermo del Toro

" I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot. "

Guillermo del Toro

" I think love is the greatest force in the universe. It's shapeless like water. It only takes the shape of things it becomes. "

Guillermo del Toro

" There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created. "

Guillermo del Toro

" There is beauty and humility in imperfection. "

Guillermo del Toro

" You cannot dictate what people find funny, what people find attractive, or what people find scary. There is not a norm. "

Guillermo del Toro

" Making a film is like raising a child. You cannot raise a child to be liked by everyone. You raise a child to excel, and you teach the child to be true to his own nature. There will be people who'll dislike your child because he or she is who they are, and there will be people who'll love your child immensely for the very same reason. "

Guillermo del Toro

" When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly. "

Guillermo del Toro

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

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

" As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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

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

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