Reason Quotes by Guillermo del Toro

9 Reason quotes by Guillermo del Toro

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Guillermo del Toro’s nine statements on reason reveal the filmmaker’s blend of visual wonder and reflective thought. Though brief, each line hints at how he balances creative fantasy with logical underpinnings in his storytelling.

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The reason there's a 'Hellboy 2' is not because the studios were passionate about the first one; it's because the numbers made…

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If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist… Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves…

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The movie has to have some essence where you connect with it. The reason I'm doing 'Blade 2' and not 'Alien 4'…

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There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four,…

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What is fantastic for me is that the Romantic movement comes out as a counter balance to everything that has been accumulating…

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Making a film is like raising a child. You cannot raise a child to be liked by everyone. You raise a child…

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I was a kid when I read Jane Eyre and fell in love with that universe. I didn't have the acumen to…

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The way they control a population is by pointing at somebody else - whether they're gay, Mexican, Jewish, black - and saying,…

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I feel that we have, as Mexicans, two things: one, a natural distrust of institutions. I hate organised religion, I hate organised…

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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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