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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. "

Guillermo del Toro

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Comfort

Culture

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

" 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'm always very, very careful when the movies happen and where they happen. "

" 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. "

" Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection. "

" I think that evil is a spiritual engine in our world, our lives, our universe, that functions in order to create good. "

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

" The way they control a population is by pointing at somebody else - whether they're gay, Mexican, Jewish, black - and saying, 'They are different than you. They're the reason you're in the shape you're in. You're not responsible.' And when they exonerate you through vilifying and demonizing someone else, they control you. "

" 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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" Ultimately, you walk life side-by-side with death, and the Day of the Dead, curiously enough, is about life. It's an impulse that's intrinsic to the Mexican character. "

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

" When I was a kid, monsters made me feel that I could fit somewhere, even if it was... an imaginary place where the grotesque and the abnormal were celebrated and accepted. "

" There's nothing more political than fantasy. "

Guillermo del Toro

Nothing

Than

" 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

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

Guillermo del Toro

Great

Religion

" Monsters are evangelical creatures for me. "

Guillermo del Toro

Evangelical

Creatures

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't. "

" 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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