Religion Quotes by Guillermo del Toro

9 Religion quotes by Guillermo del Toro

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Del Toro’s storytelling is steeped in myth and wonder, and his occasional comments on faith echo that visual richness. These nine lines let you sense how the filmmaker’s imagination intersects with his spiritual musings.

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The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion.

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...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

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I think that evil is a spiritual engine in our world, our lives, our universe, that functions in order to create good.

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We are such skeptics that we find it difficult to believe in God and angels and a spiritual afterlife, but a moment…

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When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art…

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I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein…

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I think once a Catholic, always a Catholic. You never escape. I still have Catholic guilt. It is in its basis a…

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To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime story to my kids…

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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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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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