Top 100 Guillermo's Quotes
#1. That's always been Guillermo's preference, is to have as much there practically as is humanly possible, and that digital graphic images are more a punctuation mark than they are a replacement.
Ron Perlman
#2. Because Guillermo's [del Toro] obviously a painter painting a picture and my job is just to provide the color that he probably already has in his mind.
Charlie Day
#3. I think part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I'd rather deal with restrictions of budget. It's better to feel free within any budget.
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#5. so my wife took them up to a friend's on Kinnelon Lake." Not far enough,
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#6. I'm a movement Nazi. It used to be my way before. Now, in the last three projects. I found a way to let the actors find their comfort and still find the precision in the show. It's a change in me.
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#7. It's as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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#8. Until the spirit of might descends upon us, we will not be able to push through the enemy's walls of containment.
Guillermo Maldonado
#9. I don't want to move over to Beverly Hills. My goal is to make the movies I want to make and support the people I want to support. That's it.
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#10. There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of.
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#11. In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert ... if it's too loud, you're too old.
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#12. How can I be mad at her for finding her split-apart and wanting to be with him? As Guillermo said, the heart doesn't listen to reason. It doesn't abide by laws or conventions or other people's expectations either.
Jandy Nelson
#14. In jail you learn that there are two kinds of guys in this world - and I don't care if they're human or bloodsuckers - there's the ones that take it and the ones that hand it out. And this guy, man - this guy gives it out like fucking candy ...
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#15. When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.
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#16. As a child that was disenfranchised from everything, and that was in a world that was the wrong size, run by the wrong people, the wrong morale and the wrong rules, I felt completely outside of that, and I wanted some measure of control, and the measure of control I found was through fear.
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#17. You'll meet her. She's very pretty, even though sometimes she's sad for many days at a time. You'll see, when she smiles, you'll love her.
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#18. The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.
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#19. Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#20. You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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#21. the kingdom is the rule of heaven, the power is the ability of heaven, and the glory is the atmosphere of heaven.
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#23. 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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#24. You're always just a little too late. You've spent half your life battling regrets. Making up for the past rather than getting it done in the present.
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#27. We're in three living groups, 'cause even after the world's ended some assholes still can't get along.
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#28. I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.
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#29. Can you zoom in?" The foreman rolled his eyes. "This here ain't CSI - it's Radio-fucking-Shack.
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#30. When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.
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#31. I remember Guillermo saying the cracks and breaks were the best and most interesting parts of the work in my portfolio. Perhaps it's the same with people and their cracks and breaks.
Jandy Nelson
#32. So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a Western version of The Count Of Monte Cristo where the count has a clockwork hand. I have a screenplay called Mephisto's Bridge about a Faustian deal with the devil. I love them all.
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#33. I've always been a big fan of Guillermo del Toro, 'Pan's Labryinth' blew me away. The stories and the worlds that he's created, he is truly a visionary!
Robin Atkin Downes
#34. The doctor's code is, 'First - do no harm.' The politician's code is, 'First - go on television.
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#35. There's nothing that defines who you are more than boundaries, whether you cross them or not, in every aspect of your life, and horror is a really great boundary.
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#36. There are a lot of period movies where they say, 'This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.' And it's done in like a 1950s or 60s style.
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#37. If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.
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#38. When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal ... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.
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#39. The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.
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#41. America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.
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#42. You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there's definitely a maturity about not seeking validation from everyone, every single time.
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#44. Looking back on one's life, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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#45. God is an energy, rather than an anthropomorphic being, and God's language is biology. Red blood cells, the principle of magnetic attraction, neurological synapse: each is a miracle, and in each is the presence and flow of God.
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#46. The term "solar eclipse" is in fact a misnomer. An eclipse occurs when one object passes into a shadow cast by another. In a solar eclipse, the moon does not pass into the sun's shadow, but instead passes between the sun and the earth, obscuring the sun -
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#47. My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#48. 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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#49. Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story.
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#50. I think making small movies reminds you of the effort. When you make big movies, the effort is to fight for freedom. When you make small movies, the effort is making the day, making the budget, and it's great, too.
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#51. For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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#52. People tend to think that big things only happen to big people ... I think that is not true. The small decisions we make every day define who we are and define the world around us ... But I bet to you there is a decision every day in your life where you affect somebody else.
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#53. Gus wasn't ready to drink the Kool-Aid yet, but he was ready to commit to the final leg of this journey.
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#55. A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#57. An old man's beliefs matter little. I am the past. You, the future. What are your beliefs?
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#58. There's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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#59. With every movie I produce, I learn something. I watch the directors. It's like the relationship you have with your children. I'm there to learn from my daughters. They are the perfect spirits.
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#60. I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. That no matter what budget you're doing, you should be dreaming bigger than the budget you have, and then it's a matter of reigning it in to the reality. You try to make things count.
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#61. I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
Patricia Riggen
#62. Look at the people who are coming to television Ridley Scott, Ang Lee or Guillermo del Toro - all these great filmmakers - actively put themselves back into TV. That's because the environment is very encouraging for bold storytelling, storytelling that you've never seen before.
Ron Perlman
#63. It's important for little girls to know not every story has to be a love story and for boys to know that soldiers aren't the only ones to triumph in war.
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#64. I love Rob Zombie - I'd love to work with Rob Zombie or John Cameron Mitchell.
Guillermo Diaz
#65. What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone's library is like peeking into their DNA
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#67. Bruce Willis is Bruce Willis in every single movie I've seen him in, except 'Death Becomes Her' and 'Mortal Thoughts,' which is another movie he was in that was very different from what he normally does.
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#68. For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.
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#69. The way I see film is I think film is like going out to dinner. I feel it's a banquet. You don't want to have the same food you have at home. You want to go and eat a fantastic Chinese meal or Italian or Greek.
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#70. There are two types of producing deals, and I've had both. I've produced over 20 movies now. You are either watching in horror, as the cars take the curve in the grand prix, or you're enjoying it.
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#71. I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
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#72. The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
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#73. Neeva looked at the puddle of Christ's tears on the floor. When the power of Jesus fails you, then you know you truly are shit out of luck
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#74. 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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#75. No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#76. My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear."
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#77. If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.
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#78. Rod Serling once observed, The greatest fear of all is fear of the unknown, which you can't share with others.
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#79. If you can just get a broad enough perspective on your life ... you'll realize it's all unfolding perfectly. Right this very minute.
Paul Ian Guillermo
#80. I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#81. You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.
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#82. The fairies in the ancient notion of fairies, they are not positive and cute and twinkly.They can be incredibly nasty or they can be incredibly benign. It's a really interesting mythology when you dig into it.
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#83. I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it's really great. I don't like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.
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#85. You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.
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#86. In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
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#87. What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.
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#88. I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.
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#89. And I really loved sculpting. My brother and I would do full human figures with clay and Plasticine - liver, intestines, the heart - fill them with ketchup and throw them from the roof. So I was an artistic but very morbid kid.
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#90. Guillermo taps his foot impatiently. Oscar winks at me, sending my stomach on an elevator ride. "To be continued," he says.
Jandy Nelson
#92. To beat Federer 3 times does not mean anything he is a genius whose hair does not even move when he plays.
Guillermo Canas
#93. I love the creation of these things - I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.
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#94. 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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#95. 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.
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#97. What is life, in the end, but a series of small victories and larger failures?
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#98. Video games are the comic books of our time ... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia.
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#99. I don't like him," said Gus. "Never did. Guy bitches about what he doesn't have, loses sight of what he does have, and is never happy. He's what you call a - what's that word?"
"Pessimist?" said Fet.
"Asshole," said Gus.
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#100. Gus slowed in the darkened underground tunnel and started to unlock
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