“I think we live in a culture that is actually hedging all of it towards comfort and immediacy, things that scare me. All the things that they sell us as a way of life scare me.”
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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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“I think we live in a culture that is actually hedging all of it towards comfort and immediacy, things that scare me. All the things that they sell us as a way of life scare me.”
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“Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection.”
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“There is beauty and humility in imperfection.”
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“To me, the thing love and cinema have in common is that they are about seeing. The greatest act of love you can give to anyone is to see them exactly as they are. That's the greatest act of...”
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“I have 7,000 DVDs and Blu-rays. I have thousands of books - thousands - and roughly 15,000 comic books or something like that, hundreds of books about different art movements - the symbolist...”
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“There is a heavy Mexican Catholic streak in my movies, and a huge Mexican sense of melodrama. Everything is overwrought, and there's a sense of acceptance of the fantastic in my films, which...”
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“I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!'”
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“Most of the time - in 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Devil's Backbone' - I'm talking about my childhood.”
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“Any actor I admire and enjoy working with - Sergi Lopez as the bad guy in 'Pan's Labyrinth,' or the little girl who played young Mako in 'Pacific Rim,' it makes no difference - I like actors...”
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“Everything I do, I do it with the hope that people will watch it more than twice. Whether it's 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Pacific Rim' or the opening of 'The Simpsons,' I do it with that hope.”
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“For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul.”
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“I saw a martyr in the Wolf Man, who is the very moving essence of outsiderness, with which I identified fully.”
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“Insects are living metaphors for me. They are so alien and so remote and so perfect, but also they are emotionless; they don't have any human or mammalian instincts. They'll eat their young...”
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“I have a schizophrenic career. I have 'Cronos' and 'The Devil's Backbone' on one hand, and then I have 'Blade 2' and 'Mimic' on the other.”
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“The movie has to have some essence where you connect with it. The reason I'm doing 'Blade 2' and not 'Alien 4' is because I connect with the universe of 'Blade.' I don't connect with the uni...”
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“When I did 'Mimic,' it was such a difficult experience to try to make. Believe it or not, I did try to make a really adult giant bug movie. And then, in the course of the process, it kind of...”
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“It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.”
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“I have a lot of artifacts - books on witchcrafts and talismans. I have a big, big collection of original occult books from the 1800s and 1700s, and some of the oldest books on apparitions an...”
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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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“I'm fortunate enough that my personal life falls into whack with my professional life. My kids love visiting the sets; they love the monsters.”
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