Movie Quotes by Guillermo del Toro

I'm always very, very careful when the movies happen and where they happen.

— Guillermo del Toro

It's so much easier when you're promoting a movie that you like!

— Guillermo del Toro

Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined

— Guillermo del Toro

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made

— 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

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

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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…

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

— Guillermo del Toro

I don't want to move over to Beverly Hills. My goal is to make the movies I want to make and support…

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The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made…

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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…

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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

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 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

“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

When I see a short schedule, my question to the director is, are you really comfortable with this, or are you doing…

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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…

— 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

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

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

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

Movies that look safe are less interesting.

— Guillermo del Toro

As a producer, I learned not to declare anything about a movie I'm not directing.

— Guillermo del Toro

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

— Guillermo del Toro

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

In the case of 'Shape Of Water,' I want it to feel like a song. I wanted people to come out of…

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I think part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I'd rather deal with restrictions of budget. It's…

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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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With every movie I produce, I learn something. I watch the directors. It's like the relationship you have with your children. I'm…

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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

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

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

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

Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, "We love the movie but it's too violent. If you…

— 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

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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