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" I've been going through immigration all my life, and I've been stopped for traffic violations by cops, and they get much more curious about me than the regular guy. The moment they hear my accent, things get a little deeper. "

Guillermo del Toro

Curious

Moment

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" 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. "

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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. "

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

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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. "

Guillermo del Toro

Living

Hat

" In the case of 'Shape Of Water,' I want it to feel like a song. I wanted people to come out of the movie humming the movie. "

Guillermo del Toro

Water

Want

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

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

Guillermo del Toro

Much

Easier

" I think when we wake up in the morning, we can choose between fear and love. Every morning. And every morning, if you choose one, that doesn't define you until the end... The way you end your story is important. It's important that we choose love over fear, because love is the answer. "

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

" 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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Comfort

Culture

" 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

Love

Cinema

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "