Guillermo del Toro Quotes

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

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

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This quote contrasts the challenges of real-life experiences with the speaker's perception of making movies as a rejuvenating or refreshing activity that provides a reprieve from the difficulties of everyday life.

There is beauty and humility in imperfection.

In Mexico, you're close to death all the time.

I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great.

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 some of the oldest books on apparitions and vampires. All original printings. It's not that I'm a crazy believer, I just find it to be amazing research material.

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 you until the end... The way you end your story is important. It's important that we choose love over fear, because love is the answer.

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 true to his own nature. There will be people who'll dislike your child because he or she is who they are, and there will be people who'll love your child immensely for the very same reason.

I want to live in a space that I designed, that is... -Guillermo del Toro

I want to live in a space that I designed, that is for me.

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This quote expresses a desire for personal autonomy and creative control over one's living environment. It suggests a preference for living in a space that reflects one's own design and aligns with personal tastes and preferences.

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 exceptional and bad, and people are good. But in my movies, creatures are taken for granted.

I had nightmares as a kid. As an adult, I have ver... -Guillermo del Toro

I had nightmares as a kid. As an adult, I have very prosaic dreams.

There is art and beauty and power in the primal im... -Guillermo del Toro

There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy.

I wrote a screenplay for 'The Witches,' which Alfonso Cuaron was producing, but we couldn't get it made! The studio just wouldn't greenlight that movie. It's my favorite Roald Dahl book, 'The Witches,' because I grew up with my grandmother a lot of the time, and the relationship between the boy and the grandmother speaks volumes to me.

More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies.

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 thought I had trichinosis, an aneurism, jaundice! And then an encyclopedia of art.

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.

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