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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. "

Guillermo del Toro

Keep

Ideas

Myself

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Dialogue

Presence

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Guillermo del Toro

Love

Cinema

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Guillermo del Toro

Curious

Moment

" 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

" More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies. "

" 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. "

" 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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Guillermo del Toro

Altar

Boy

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" The movie has to have some essence where you connect with it. The reason I'm doing 'Blade 2' and not 'Alien 4' is because I connect with the universe of 'Blade.' I don't connect with the universe of 'Alien.' Besides, I already did 'Alien 4': It's called 'Mimic.' "

" A lot of Mexican Catholic dogma, the way it's taught, it's about existing in a state of grace, which I found impossible to reconcile with the much darker view of the world and myself, even as a child. "

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