Film Quotes by Guillermo del Toro

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

— Guillermo del Toro

I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!'

— Guillermo del Toro

For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul.

— Guillermo del Toro

I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit

— Guillermo del Toro

I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.

— Guillermo del Toro

Movies that look safe are less interesting.

— Guillermo del Toro

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek

— Guillermo del Toro

I'm very grateful of my life and my career and the movies I've been able to make.

— Guillermo del Toro

“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

I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.

— Guillermo del Toro

As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.

— Guillermo del Toro

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be.

— Guillermo del Toro

I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates.

— Guillermo del Toro

If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.

— Guillermo del Toro

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

I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.

— Guillermo del Toro

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

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

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

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

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

Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make…

— Guillermo del Toro

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

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

If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which…

— Guillermo del Toro