Guillermo del Toro

“Tom Hiddleston is so fucking nice. It used to be in the past you were either nice, or you were good-looking and…

— Guillermo del Toro

When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership.

— Guillermo del Toro

You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them…

— Guillermo del Toro

“What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? A moment of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still…

— Guillermo del Toro

If you want to know how to handle a crew, it's great to be part of a crew.

— Guillermo del Toro

For any actor to have Oliver Stone call him or her up… It’s a compliment. He expects you to be on your…

— Guillermo del Toro

The problem with 'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark' was that it was designed to be a PG-13 movie. It was literally…

— Guillermo del Toro

My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love…

— Guillermo del Toro

I'm a lapsed altar boy.

— Guillermo del Toro

“I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always…

— Guillermo del Toro

'Crimson' is written in a very particular style, and it's very precise in the way it graduates into a gothic romance. The…

— Guillermo del Toro

Any actor I admire and enjoy working with - Sergi Lopez as the bad guy in 'Pan's Labyrinth,' or the little girl…

— Guillermo del Toro

“All belief systems are elaborate fabrications, if logic is followed out to the end.”

— Guillermo del Toro

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

— Guillermo del Toro

Normally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made.

— Guillermo del Toro

In Mexico, you're close to death all the time.

— Guillermo del Toro

Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming…

— Guillermo del Toro

There is beautiful in the grotesque.

— Guillermo del Toro

It's never hard to cast kids; it's only ever hard to direct them.

— Guillermo del Toro

The idea for me is that if the movie connects with you the way I want it to connect with you, you…

— Guillermo del Toro

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

— Guillermo del Toro

I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!'

— Guillermo del Toro

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

— Guillermo del Toro

I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I'll produce that one, but if I direct…

— Guillermo del Toro

There is beauty and humility in imperfection.

— Guillermo del Toro