Guillermo del Toro
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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
You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.
We're in three living groups, 'cause even after the world's ended some assholes still can't get along.
Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story.
I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad...
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.
The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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.
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.
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.