Guillermo del Toro quotes

Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and visual artist known for his imaginative and dark fantasy works. His films, such as "Pan's Labyrinth" and "The Shape of Water," blend fairy-tale elements with deep emotional and social themes. He is celebrated for his unique visual style and profound storytelling. Here are 45 of his quotes:

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters. (Guillermo del Toro)
There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created. View quote
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The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7. View quote
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There is beautiful in the grotesque. View quote
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When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly. View quote
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Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch. View quote
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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek. View quote
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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 the rest of cinema. View quote
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The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters. View quote
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The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist. View quote
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You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think. (Guillermo del Toro)
Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable. View quote
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Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic. View quote
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For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot. View quote
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But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling. View quote
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Well I think effects are tools. View quote
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I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror. View quote
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I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm. View quote
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The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good. View quote
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I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing. View quote
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... to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone. (Guillermo del Toro)
What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them. View quote
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Success is fucking up on your own terms. View quote
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I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit. View quote
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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others. View quote
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Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro - Image
Photo: Boungawa, CC BY-SA 4.0
Occupation: Mexican Filmmaker
Born: October 9, 1964
Quotes count: 45
Wikipedia: Guillermo del Toro

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