Trying Quotes by Guillermo del Toro

9 Trying quotes by Guillermo del Toro

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Del Toro’s nine brief reflections on trying reveal his imaginative approach to overcoming obstacles. Each line feels like a storyboard sketch of determination, concise yet vivid.

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I don't try to define the cosmos, I know it's unknowable, but I can understand my place in the world and my…

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When I stage a violent scene, I try for it to serve a purpose. I do love those things, the makeup effects.…

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I find I'm waking up really early now, just to read. Waking up at ungodly hours. But I try to keep up,…

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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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I have "fat-guy syndrome." If they give me $50 million to make a movie, I'll try to make it look like it…

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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.…

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I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. That no matter what budget you're doing, you should be dreaming bigger…

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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…

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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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