For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
It's so much easier when you're promoting a movie that you like! — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I'm always very, very careful when the movies happen and where they happen. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
The movies that I do are in love with cinema, and I try to show that I am in love with cinema.… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I don't want to move over to Beverly Hills. My goal is to make the movies I want to make and support… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I try to find inspiration in books, paintings, illustrations and the one thing I try to avoid is just being inspired by… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
With every movie I produce, I learn something. I watch the directors. It's like the relationship you have with your children. I'm… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I have "fat-guy syndrome." If they give me $50 million to make a movie, I'll try to make it look like it… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
There are times when you are in despair, because in order not to betray who you are, you don't compromise, you don't… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Every project that you write about or read about, it goes through years of hard work. We write a screenplay; we design.… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Every movie, I complicate. I make the hard choices. I remember when I was pitching 'Pan's Labyrinth:' An anti-fascist fairy tale set… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
When I did 'Mimic,' it was such a difficult experience to try to make. Believe it or not, I did try to… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I wrote a screenplay for 'The Witches,' which Alfonso Cuaron was producing, but we couldn't get it made! The studio just wouldn't… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
You live and die two or three times making a movie. First, you write it, and the first pivotal moment comes when… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
As a producer, I learned not to declare anything about a movie I'm not directing. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
In the case of 'Shape Of Water,' I want it to feel like a song. I wanted people to come out of… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I think part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I'd rather deal with restrictions of budget. It's… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I'm a huge David Fincher fan, and to me, 'Zodiac' is a masterpiece. I re-watch that movie all the time. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
When I see a short schedule, my question to the director is, are you really comfortable with this, or are you doing… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Shooting a horror story with kids, I always explain really simply. They may be scary to watch, but they're a lot of… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
The movie has to have some essence where you connect with it. The reason I'm doing 'Blade 2' and not 'Alien 4'… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I have 7,000 DVDs and Blu-rays. I have thousands of books - thousands - and roughly 15,000 comic books or something like… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
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.… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I would have killed to do 'Beauty And The Beast' at Warners, which went away. I would have killed to do 'The… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
The idea for me is that if the movie connects with you the way I want it to connect with you, you… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
The problem with 'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark' was that it was designed to be a PG-13 movie. It was literally… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“Tom Hiddleston is so fucking nice. It used to be in the past you were either nice, or you were good-looking and an asshole.” — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share
When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share
You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share
“What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? A moment of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share
If you want to know how to handle a crew, it's great to be part of a crew. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share
For any actor to have Oliver Stone call him or her up Its a compliment. He expects you to be on your toes. If… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share
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… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share
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,… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share
“I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit."… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share
'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… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share
Any actor I admire and enjoy working with - Sergi Lopez as the bad guy in 'Pan's Labyrinth,' or the little girl who played… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share
“All belief systems are elaborate fabrications, if logic is followed out to the end.” — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share
Normally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share
