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
I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.
I think making small movies reminds you of the effort. When you make big movies, the effort is to fight for freedom. When you make small movies, the effort is making the day, making the budget, and it's great, too.
for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.
Survival often feels like an indignity.
I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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.
Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic cave. We naturally believe ourselves clever and wise, so advanced, and those who came before us so naïve and simple…when all we truly do is echo the order of the universe, as it guides us…
My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear."
Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.
For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.
I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.
When I see a short schedule, my question to the director is, are you really comfortable with this, or are you doing it to be a good boy? At the end, you only win the medal if the film is good, you don't win a medal if the movie is on time.
When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.
You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.