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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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" I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue. "

Guillermo del Toro

Dialogue

Presence

" You cannot dictate what people find funny, what people find attractive, or what people find scary. There is not a norm. "

" I don't think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be. "

" You cannot convince a Buddhist to become a Protestant any more than you can convince a person who embraces realism as the highest form of art that fantasy is an equally important manifestation. It's impossible. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own. "

" '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. "

" I love monsters the way people worship holy images. To me, they really connect in a very fundamental way to my identity. "

" But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling. "

" There is a heavy Mexican Catholic streak in my movies, and a huge Mexican sense of melodrama. Everything is overwrought, and there's a sense of acceptance of the fantastic in my films, which is innately Mexican. So when people ask, 'How can you define the Mexican-ness of your films?' I go, 'How can I not?' It's all I am. "

" 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. "

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

" Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters. "

" 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. "

" What is scary to me is silly to somebody else. CG isn't scary to me. It's like comedy - comedy and horror are quite similar, in that there'll always be somebody who'll say, 'I don't think that was funny.' And it's the same with things that are meant to be scary. "

" I want to live in a space that I designed, that is for me. "

Guillermo del Toro

Want

Space

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

" In Mexico, you're close to death all the time. "

" I'd love to come back as the most annoying ghost ever. "

" I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death. "

" They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do. "

" 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

" I was directing before I knew it was called that. "

" I'm very grateful of my life and my career and the movies I've been able to make. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm having a lot of fun on Twitter, tweeting about books. "

" 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. "