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 am going to mind the grosses, the opening box offices but why I am concerned with mostly is for the movie to be what I want it to be.
When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly
You live and die two or three times making a movie. First, you write it, and the first pivotal moment comes when you can get it made. The second is in the process of making it, when the movie reveals itself to you, its flaws and its virtues. Then the most unnerving moment is when that movie is then launched into the world. It's like bringing your kid to the first day at school and somebody points out that it has bowlegs, it is cross-eyed, or it's gorgeous. You feel very exposed.
You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.
I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.
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.
If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.
I have my library separate from the family home, and every room is a different genre. The only room that I can guarantee I've read everything is the horror room.
I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad...
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.
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.