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
Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.
They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot
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.
I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film...
Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -
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.
...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
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.
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.
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.