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" What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek. "

Guillermo del Toro

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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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" Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' was influenced by Lovecraft big time. He wanted to make his monsters Lovecraftian. But I think many other films have been influenced by Lovecraft - like 'Alien,' which is almost an outer-space version of 'At The Mountains Of Madness.' "

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" When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly. "

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" It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" I think that most of the monsters I dream of, I dreamt of as a child. "

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" 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. "

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" TV now, you have to plan it: you structure it for binge watching, meaning you structure the whole season like a three-act play. You have a first act - the first third of the season - second act is the middle third, and you structure it like that. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" If you give an actor a green screen, the shot may work, but that green screen will not inspire you on the set as a director or as an actor. "

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" I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!' "

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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'm a lapsed altar boy. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I'm a huge David Fincher fan, and to me, 'Zodiac' is a masterpiece. I re-watch that movie all the time. "

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" I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot. "

Guillermo del Toro

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

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

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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 love to travel, anywhere in the world. Wherever it is... India... Tibet... wherever. I'll go anywhere. "

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" I have 7,000 DVDs and Blu-rays. I have thousands of books - thousands - and roughly 15,000 comic books or something like that, hundreds of books about different art movements - the symbolists, the dadaists, the Pre-Raphaelites, the impressionists - you know, that I consult before I start every movie. "

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

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" There is beauty and humility in imperfection. "

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" Monsters are evangelical creatures for me. "

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