"If you're not operating on an instinctive level,……" — Guillermo del Toro
"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 find fantasy liberating."
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65 Quotes by Guillermo del Toro
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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…
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I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the…
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In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever…
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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,…
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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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When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical…
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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…
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It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially…
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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