When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I'm very grateful of my life and my career and the movies I've been able to make. — 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
I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with… — 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
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 don't think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
The reason there's a 'Hellboy 2' is not because the studios were passionate about the first one; it's because the numbers made… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
If you ask me, I alternate between truly bizarre, what you would call 'Hollywood' movies and truly bizarre, what you would call… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut. — 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
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
I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it's really great. I don't like jokey horror films… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I think making small movies reminds you of the effort. When you make big movies, the effort is to fight for freedom.… — 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
There are two types of producing deals, and I've had both. I've produced over 20 movies now. You are either watching in… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Making a film is like raising a child. You cannot raise a child to be liked by everyone. You raise a child… — 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
“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
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 love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film. — 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
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
I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
When you start with Super 8, you are everything. You're the DP, the sound man, the effects guy. And what I started… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
'Hellboy 1' was such a huge, huge overperformer on Blu-ray and ancillary markets. It was one of the first movies on Blu-ray;… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
The way I see film is I think film is like going out to dinner. I feel it's a banquet. You don't… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
To me, the thing love and cinema have in common is that they are about seeing. The greatest act of love you… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four,… — 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 Image
When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
If you want to know how to handle a crew, it's great to be part of a crew. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
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 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 a horror… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
'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 Image
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 Image
