Guillermo del Toro Quotes

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• I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.
• I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered…
• In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed…
• The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
• There is beautiful in the grotesque.
• There are men who bloom in chaos. You call them heroes or villains, depending on which side wins the war, but until the battle call…
• The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.
• My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.
• If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I…
• When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are…
• I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
• I love the creation of these things—I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.
• It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
• I absolutely am a big Call of Duty fan. Every time a new Call of Duty comes out – I never play the games online,…
• I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal was, Don't sell…
• Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.
• For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot
• They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and…
• For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made
• Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined

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