Top 100 Quotes About Guillermo Del Toro
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. His (Lloyd Kaufman) string of low-budget, lowbrow horror comedies stretching back to the '80s has been cited as influence by Peter Jackson, the Farrelly Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Takashi Miike, and Guillermo Del Toro, just to cite a few prominent examples.
Lou Lumenick
#4. I will do anything for Guillermo del Toro, if he asked me. I would give him my first-born child.
Robert Kazinsky
#5. I went to a festival pretending to work as a journalist to get free tickets and interview people I really admired. I remember one of these people was Guillermo del Toro.
Juan Antonio Bayona
#6. I'm not going to say that the other people I worked with weren't artist. They were all very great, very talented people, but I think Guillermo [del Toro] will go down in cinematic history as one of our more talented, visually brilliant directors.
Charlie Day
#7. The Coen Brothers, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro have really made something of themselves and impacted people. I'd love to work with them sometime, too.
Molly Quinn
#8. I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
Emma Watson
#9. I would love to work with Guillermo del Toro and J.J. Abrams. I think they are creative geniuses that are constantly producing great work, and they're two people that I would just love to work with.
Fiona Gubelmann
#10. 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
#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
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#15. I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. 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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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. There's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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#25. An old man's beliefs matter little. I am the past. You, the future. What are your beliefs?
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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. Gus slowed in the darkened underground tunnel and started to unlock
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#29. 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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#30. Video games are the comic books of our time ... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia.
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#31. What is life, in the end, but a series of small victories and larger failures?
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#32. 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
#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. 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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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
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#41. You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.
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#43. 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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#44. 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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#45. 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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#46. 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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#47. 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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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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#53. The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.
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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. 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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#58. In you, we have given this world a great gift - and of that, I have no doubt.
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#59. One must always name a weapon. You cannot trust that which you cannot call by name.
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#60. 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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#61. I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror.
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#63. Everything in our universe is ciphered and to know the cipher is to know the thing - and to know the thing is to command it.
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#64. As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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#66. Miriam Sacher had survived polio as a child. To Abraham, she was simply the most exquisite little bird who could not fly.
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#67. It is not faith that distinguishes our real leaders. It is doubt. Their ability to overcome it.
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#68. I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates.
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#69. Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
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#70. We don't discover, we don't learn. We just remember things that we have forgotten ...
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#71. We are such skeptics that we find it difficult to believe in God and angels and a spiritual afterlife, but a moment of fear makes our spirit so vulnerable that it allows us to believe in something beyond that.
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#72. I love the idea of creating a sort of nuanced portrait of kids that they're not all perfect. They're kind of misfits but not in a picturesque, hip way, they're really, really kids that are not entirely great.
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#73. In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert ... if it's too loud, you're too old.
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#75. 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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#76. I believe that the physical effect, the physical set, whenever you can, is ten times better than the digital effect.
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#77. 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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#78. If we don't defend what we love-if we let it fade-then our lives lose meaning. We must declare ourselves of what we are ... What we love.
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#79. Eph too had been turned. Not from human to vampire, but from healer to slayer.
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#80. I always thought what if you took a myth of childhood like the tooth fairy and made it a central scary thing. We did it on Hellboy and we did it on 'Don't be afraid of the dark'.
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#81. I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna understand the instincts that are going to inform the story.
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#82. People think you're like The Godfather, waiting for scripts to come in. But, you're hustling, you're desperate, you're panicked and you're horrified. The movie you think you're going to do next, you don't do. The movie you think you're never going to do, you make.
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#83. Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -
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#84. What you fought was a dead man, possessed by a disease.' - Setrakian
'What
like a pinche zombie?' - Gus
'Think more along the lines of a man with a black cape. Fangs. Funny accent. Now take away the cape and fangs. The funny accent. Take away anything funny about it.' - Setrakian
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#86. 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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#87. I think damage to the eye or damage to the teeth is one of the most universally cringing things you can do in a movie and these are very fragile sounds.
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#89. : There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence.
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#90. I thought the tooth fairy was a very creepy concept as a kid. "Put your tooth under the pillow." I was like "Why does someone want my teeth?".
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#91. Kelly was not going to remove her glasses. No matter what the television said about it being safe to do during the 'totality'. The television also told her she wouldn't age if she bought expensive creams and pills.
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#92. It's as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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#93. 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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#94. 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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#95. so my wife took them up to a friend's on Kinnelon Lake." Not far enough,
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#96. 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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#97. The proper term is "occultation." The moon occults the sun, casting a small shadow onto the surface of the earth. It is not a solar eclipse, but in fact an eclipse of the earth.
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#98. When I see a short schedule, my question to the director is, are you really comfortable with this, or are you doing it to be a good boy? At the end, you only win the medal if the film is good, you don't win a medal if the movie is on time.
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#99. Zombie Sky. No: Zombies of the Eclipse. Zombies of the Occultation. Occult Zombies from the Planet Moon!
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#100. And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.
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