“Every movie, I complicate. I make the hard choices. I remember when I was pitching 'Pan's Labyrinth:' An anti-fascist fairy tale set in Civil War Spain, where the girl dies at the end. It's...”
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Guillermo del Toro Gómez (born October 9, 1964) is a Mexican film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. **Source**: [Guillermo del Toro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_del_Toro) on Wikipedia
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“Every movie, I complicate. I make the hard choices. I remember when I was pitching 'Pan's Labyrinth:' An anti-fascist fairy tale set in Civil War Spain, where the girl dies at the end. It's...”
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“I love what many of my contemporaries are doing, especially people like Terry Gilliam, David Cronenberg, P. T. Anderson, and Alfonso Cuaron.”
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“'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.”
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“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...”
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“Ultimately, you walk life side-by-side with death, and the Day of the Dead, curiously enough, is about life. It's an impulse that's intrinsic to the Mexican character.”
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“I like monsters, and when the monster is a superhero, it's a byproduct. Like Hellboy, the Hulk, Man-Thing, Swamp Thing, Sandman, Constantine, Demon, Dr. Strange, Spectre, Deadman. Those are...”
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“I believe that we will elevate and differentiate the discourse of cinema the more we discuss image creation in specific terms.”
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“I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth.”
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“Every Sunday on Channel 6 in Guadalajara, where I lived, they dedicated most every Sunday to black-and-white horror films and sci-fi. So I watched them. I watched 'Tarantula.' I watched 'The...”
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“I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget.”
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“I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great.”
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“I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit.”
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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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“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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“I hope to continue doing TV, and I think that what I've learned on 'The Strain' will come in handy.”
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“You cannot convince a Buddhist to become a Protestant any more than you can convince a person who embraces realism as the highest form of art that fantasy is an equally important manifestati...”
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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,...”
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“The problem with 'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark' was that it was designed to be a PG-13 movie. It was literally a horror movie for a younger generation. I was trying to do the film equivalent...”
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“In the case of 'Shape Of Water,' I want it to feel like a song. I wanted people to come out of the movie humming the movie.”
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“More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies.”
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