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" It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism. "

Guillermo del Toro

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" The great thing about Roald Dahl is he tackled the big questions of life without any fear of being shocking or brutal, because he knew the kids could take it. "

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

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

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" Monsters are evangelical creatures for me. "

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" 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. "

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

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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. "

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" I was very attracted to doing 'The Wolverine' in Japan because that's my favorite chapter in the story of Wolverine. But I'm not a superhero guy. "

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

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

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

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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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" I love the entire 'Constantine' mythology, the 'Dead Man' mythology, the Alex Holland 'Swamp Thing' mythology. "

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" '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. "

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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 see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema. "

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

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" Every movie, I complicate. I make the hard choices. I remember when I was pitching 'Pan's Labyrinth:' An anti-fascist fairy tale set in Civil War Spain, where the girl dies at the end. It's not easy. "

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" 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. "

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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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" Well I think effects are tools. "

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" I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing. "

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" There's nothing more political than fantasy. "

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" I was directing before I knew it was called that. "

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" 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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