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

Guillermo del Toro

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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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" There is beauty and humility in imperfection. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" There's nothing more political than fantasy. "

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

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" What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek. "

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" 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. "

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" When I was a kid, monsters made me feel that I could fit somewhere, even if it was... an imaginary place where the grotesque and the abnormal were celebrated and accepted. "

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" As a craftsman, I bust my butt as much for 'Blade 2' as I do for 'Devil's Backbone.' "

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

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

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" To me, movies are books. They are texts to be consulted. "

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" I have a very promiscuous relationship with all my objects. "

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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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" 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. "

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" I hope to continue doing TV, and I think that what I've learned on 'The Strain' will come in handy. "

Guillermo del Toro

" Love is love. And it's much better than hatred and fear. "

Guillermo del Toro

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

Guillermo del Toro

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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