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" 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
Every Day
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" I was directing before I knew it was called that. "
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" More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies. "
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" 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. "
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" What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek. "
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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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" '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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" Most of the time - in 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Devil's Backbone' - I'm talking about my childhood. "
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" I'm a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedias. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly obsessed with anatomy, and I thought I had trichinosis, an aneurism, jaundice! And then an encyclopedia of art. "
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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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" I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!' "
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" Every project that you write about or read about, it goes through years of hard work. We write a screenplay; we design. Then you submit those and the budget, and it's out of your hands. "
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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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" It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain. "
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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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" 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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" I believe that we will elevate and differentiate the discourse of cinema the more we discuss image creation in specific terms. "
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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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" Love is love. And it's much better than hatred and fear. "
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" '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. "
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" I'm always very, very careful when the movies happen and where they happen. "
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" To me, movies are books. They are texts to be consulted. "
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" There's nothing more political than fantasy. "
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" I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" You cannot dictate what people find funny, what people find attractive, or what people find scary. There is not a norm. "
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