Guillermo del Toro Quotes

• You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

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

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

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• Well I think effects are tools.

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• 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.

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• There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there’s the super vampires, which are a new breed we’ve created.

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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.

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• It’s only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.

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

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• I’m a lapsed altar boy.

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

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• 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.

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

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

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• I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror.

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

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• I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don’t see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.

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

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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.

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Guillermo del Toro (24)

Birth:	9th October, 1964
Nationality:	Mexican
Profession:	Director, Novelist, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Guillermo del Toro Gómez is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, and novelist. In his filmmaking career, del Toro has alternated between Spanish-language dark fantasy pieces, such as The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth, and more mainstream American action movies, such as Blade II, Hellboy  its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and Pacific Rim.

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