For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is l... -Guillermo del Toro

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For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul.

Guillermo del Toro , Director
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Guillermo del Toro Quotes to Explore

The way I love monsters is a Mexican way of loving monsters, which is that I am not judgmental. The Anglo way of seeing things is that monsters are ex...
More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies....
For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul....
I want to live in a space that I designed, that is for me....
I'm a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedias. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly obsessed with anatomy, and...
I have a lot of artifacts - books on witchcrafts and talismans. I have a big, big collection of original occult books from the 1800s and 1700s, and so...
There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy....
There is beauty and humility in imperfection....
Making a film is like raising a child. You cannot raise a child to be liked by everyone. You raise a child to excel, and you teach the child to be tru...
I think when we wake up in the morning, we can choose between fear and love. Every morning. And every morning, if you choose one, that doesn't define ...

Movies Quotes to Explore

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids....
Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised....
People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish t...
During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studio...
The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't think you could make movies exclusively where ...
In the kind of films that I do, there is an extremely limited number of people that can improvise. The reason the ensemble continues in the movies is ...
I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special eff...
I like superhero films, and I love Star Wars movies, but I want to make sure there's a wide diaspora of films getting made....
I'd loved 'Iron Man,' you know, with a passion. I thought that was the most fresh, cool thing, in terms of superhero movies, that I'd seen in a long t...
I loved all movies, literally. I certainly loved 'Shane' and 'Roxie Hart.' Later on, when I was less of a kid, I loved 'L'Avventura' and 'Persona' and...