Movies Quotes by Guillermo del Toro

11 Movies quotes by Guillermo del Toro

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Guillermo del Toro’s reflections on film are gathered into eleven concise quotes. Though the list is modest, it hints at the rich, fantastical lens through which he sees the medium.

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

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

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Movies that look safe are less interesting.

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

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

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More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies.

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If you ask me, I alternate between truly bizarre, what you would call 'Hollywood' movies and truly bizarre, what you would call…

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The way I love monsters is a Mexican way of loving monsters, which is that I am not judgmental. The Anglo way…

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There is a heavy Mexican Catholic streak in my movies, and a huge Mexican sense of melodrama. Everything is overwrought, and there's…

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Shooting a horror story with kids, I always explain really simply. They may be scary to watch, but they're a lot of…

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'Hellboy 1' was such a huge, huge overperformer on Blu-ray and ancillary markets. It was one of the first movies on Blu-ray;…

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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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“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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