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" Most of the time - in 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Devil's Backbone' - I'm talking about my childhood. "

Guillermo del Toro

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" 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. "

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

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" I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage. "

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

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

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" Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined. "

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" 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. "

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" I love what many of my contemporaries are doing, especially people like Terry Gilliam, David Cronenberg, P. T. Anderson, and Alfonso Cuaron. "

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" I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great. "

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

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

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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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" For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul. "

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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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" I like monsters, and when the monster is a superhero, it's a byproduct. Like Hellboy, the Hulk, Man-Thing, Swamp Thing, Sandman, Constantine, Demon, Dr. Strange, Spectre, Deadman. Those are the superheroes I followed as a kid religiously. "

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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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" '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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" 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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" 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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" Every Sunday on Channel 6 in Guadalajara, where I lived, they dedicated most every Sunday to black-and-white horror films and sci-fi. So I watched them. I watched 'Tarantula.' I watched 'The Monolith Monsters.' I watched all the Universal library. "

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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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" I have a schizophrenic career. I have 'Cronos' and 'The Devil's Backbone' on one hand, and then I have 'Blade 2' and 'Mimic' on the other. "

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" It's never hard to cast kids; it's only ever hard to direct them. "

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" 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. "

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" I believe that we, every day, 24-7, all the days of our lives, we are, all of us, agents of construction and agents of destruction. "

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

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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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" There's nothing more political than fantasy. "

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