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Guillermo del Toro has 78 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of…
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In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we…
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The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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There are men who bloom in chaos. You call them heroes or villains, depending on which side wins the war, but until…
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The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.
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My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.
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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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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 have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
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I love the creation of these things—I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the…
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As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote
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I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
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John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors…
— Donald Pleasence
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At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot…
— Donald Pleasence
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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
— Guillermo del Toro
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I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though…
— David Cronenberg
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We had many good directors - John Carpenter, Brian De Palma - but things have become polluted by business, money and bad…
— Dario Argento
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I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western…
— John Leguizamo
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