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" When I was a child, I was raised Catholic. Somewhere, I didn't fit with the saints and holy men. I discovered the monsters - in Boris Karloff, I saw a beautiful, innocent creature in a state of grace, sacrificed by sins he did not commit. "

Guillermo del Toro

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Child

Grace

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" I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen. "

" I see myself as a perennial expatriate because, frankly, I don't think I fit comfortably in any conventional form of filmmaking, and I feel at the same time, depending on the project, I fit into many different ones. "

" 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 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. "

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

" Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection. "

" I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films. "

" '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. "

" Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined. "

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

" I believe that we will elevate and differentiate the discourse of cinema the more we discuss image creation in specific terms. "

" I think love is the greatest force in the universe. It's shapeless like water. It only takes the shape of things it becomes. "

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

" 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. "

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

Guillermo del Toro

Travel

India

" 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. "

" It's so much easier when you're promoting a movie that you like! "

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" I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others. "

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" Well I think effects are tools. "

" 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'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing. "

" I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. "

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

" I truly try to create beauty and reflection and all of that as conscientiously and judiciously and minutely as I can. "

" In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old. "

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

" 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. "