Books Quotes by Guillermo del Toro

12 Books quotes by Guillermo del Toro

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Del Toro’s cinematic imagination often starts on a page, and these 12 snippets capture that spark. They’re a concise entry point for anyone curious about how his visual storytelling is rooted in written worlds.

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I'm having a lot of fun on Twitter, tweeting about books.

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video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".

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To me, movies are books. They are texts to be consulted.

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I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or…

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My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love…

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What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing…

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I'm a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedias. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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I try to find inspiration in books, paintings, illustrations and the one thing I try to avoid is just being inspired by…

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I find I'm waking up really early now, just to read. Waking up at ungodly hours. But I try to keep up,…

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“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.”

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When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership.

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You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the…

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“What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? A moment of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to…

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If you want to know how to handle a crew, it's great to be part of a crew.

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For any actor to have Oliver Stone call him or her up Its a compliment. He expects you to be on your toes. If…

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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…

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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,…

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I'm a lapsed altar boy.

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“I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit."…

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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…

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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…

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“All belief systems are elaborate fabrications, if logic is followed out to the end.”

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Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

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Normally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made.

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