Guillermo del Toro Quotes - Page 3

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• video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".

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  Book, Games, Gains

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• What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.

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  Dna, Profound, Library

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• Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

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  Genius, Mystery, Abyss

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• I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates.

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  Beautiful, Believe, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.

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  Liars, Writing, Reality

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• The fairies in the ancient notion of fairies, they are not positive and cute and twinkly.They can be incredibly nasty or they can be incredibly benign. It's a really interesting mythology when you dig into it.

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  Cute, Interesting, Nasty

  Source: collider.com

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• If we have a choice in how we die, I would say that's a privilege. I think we have a sort of prudish approach to death in the West, though certainly not in Mexico. In Mexico, it's a little bit freer. We're not so precious about it.

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  Thinking, Choices

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.

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  Nice, Tough Questions, Guy

  Source: deadline.com

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• For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made

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  Movie, Eight, Years

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• When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

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  Art, Mean, Intuition

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are such skeptics that we find it difficult to believe in God and angels and a spiritual afterlife, but a moment of fear makes our spirit so vulnerable that it allows us to believe in something beyond that.

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  Spiritual, Believe, Angel

  Source: collider.com

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• There are times when you are in despair, because in order not to betray who you are, you don't compromise, you don't make movies that would be very lucrative or prestigious or easily understood. And yet I stay attached to the most uncanny premises. It's never been easy.

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  Despair, Compromise, Easy

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• I'm a movement Nazi. It used to be my way before. Now, in the last three projects. I found a way to let the actors find their comfort and still find the precision in the show. It's a change in me.

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  Way, Lasts, Comfort

  Source: collider.com

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• Survival often feels like an indignity.

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  Survival, Feels, Indignity

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• It's the difference between a parable and a pamphlet. A parable discusses things that are relevant in the past, the future, and the present - regardless of the outcome in the present. A pamphlet, on the other hand, is completely concerned with affecting an outcome in the present, the most immediate present.

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  Past, Relevant, Concerned

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• ...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

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  Spiritual, Might, Maternal Love

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• I really believe that in the larger sense, not only today but at all times, you only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

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  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.

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  Halloween, Independent, Horror Genre

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 3, 2003.

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• I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it's really great. I don't like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.

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  Thinking, People, Horror

  Source: collider.com

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• Producing is great because you learn.

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  Source: collider.com

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• With supernatural things, I have heard ghosts, but I've never seen ghosts. I do seek ghosts and I would love to see one, but I would crap my pants.

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  Pants, Ghost, Heard

  Source: collider.com

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• I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window.

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  Boys, Age, Window

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 3, 2003.

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• The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.

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  Desire

  "10 Questions for Guillermo del Toro". Interview with Gilbert Cruz, content.time.com. September 05, 2011.

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• And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.

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  Blood, Honor, Faces

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• Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

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  Insanity, Insane, Doe

  Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan (2011). “The Night Eternal”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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