Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro Gómezis a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, and novelist. In his filmmaking career, del Toro has alternated between Spanish-language dark fantasy pieces, such as the gothic horror film The Devil's Backbone, and Pan's Labyrinth, and more mainstream American action movies, such as the vampire superhero action film Blade II, the supernatural superhero film Hellboy, its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and the science fiction monster film Pacific Rim...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth9 October 1964
CountryMexico
Guillermo del Toro quotes about
...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.
As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".
You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.
Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.
The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.
For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made
If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
I love the creation of these things—I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.
It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
I absolutely am a big Call of Duty fan. Every time a new Call of Duty comes out – I never play the games online, but I play the solo version super fast. My family knows not to interrupt me the day they come out, they know it's a sacred date for me. I think my favorite visually, of all of the Call of Duty games - even if it's not as sassy and high tech - is World at War because, that game has some really incredible episodes in Berlin and the Japanese fields. It's really quite arresting for me, visually, and it was very immersive. But I love Modern Warfare, too.
There are two types of producing deals, and I've had both. I've produced over 20 movies now. You are either watching in horror, as the cars take the curve in the grand prix, or you're enjoying it.
I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal was, Don't sell out. We live in a society that by virtue of the speed we communicate and sell, everything sells. The danger is buying in; that your concern becomes success, rather than fulfillment. They're two different beasts, and my feeling is that you should seek fulfillment. You should not measure your worth in how much you have or how popular you are, but how happy you are with what you do.