Guillermo Del Toro Quotes

I'm having a lot of fun on Twitter, tweeting about books.
I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth.
I'm very grateful of my life and my career and the movies I've been able to make.
I've been going through immigration all my life, and I've been stopped for traffic violations by cops, and they get much more curious about me than the regular guy. The moment they hear my accent, things get a little deeper.
If you ask me, I alternate between truly bizarre, what you would call 'Hollywood' movies and truly bizarre, what you would call 'arthouse' movies.
If you give an actor a green screen, the shot may work, but that green screen will not inspire you on the set as a director or as an actor.
If you want to know how to handle a crew, it's great to be part of a crew.
In Mexico, you're close to death all the time.
In the case of 'Shape Of Water,' I want it to feel like a song. I wanted people to come out of the movie humming the movie.
Insects are living metaphors for me. They are so alien and so remote and so perfect, but also they are emotionless; they don't have any human or mammalian instincts. They'll eat their young at the drop of a hat; they can eat your house! There's no empathy - none.
It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.
It's never hard to cast kids; it's only ever hard to direct them.
It's so much easier when you're promoting a movie that you like!
Love is love. And it's much better than hatred and fear.
Making a film is like raising a child. You cannot raise a child to be liked by everyone. You raise a child to excel, and you teach the child to be true to his own nature. There will be people who'll dislike your child because he or she is who they are, and there will be people who'll love your child immensely for the very same reason.
Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' was influenced by Lovecraft big time. He wanted to make his monsters Lovecraftian. But I think many other films have been influenced by Lovecraft - like 'Alien,' which is almost an outer-space version of 'At The Mountains Of Madness.'
Monsters are evangelical creatures for me.
Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection.
More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies.
Most of the time - in 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Devil's Backbone' - I'm talking about my childhood.
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