Guillermo del Toro Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the movie industry: So is a video game.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Sorry, Games, Video

• I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films

  Guillermo del Toro

  Eight, Film

• When I see a short schedule, my question to the director is, are you really comfortable with this, or are you doing it to be a good boy? At the end, you only win the medal if the film is good, you don't win a medal if the movie is on time.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Winning, Boys, Directors

  Source: deadline.com

• What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Firsts, Geek, Film

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

• The way I see film is I think film is like going out to dinner. I feel it's a banquet. You don't want to have the same food you have at home. You want to go and eat a fantastic Chinese meal or Italian or Greek.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Home, Italian, Thinking

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others

  Guillermo del Toro

  Film, Carpenter

• I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Real, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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

  Guillermo del Toro

  Beautiful, Believe, Directors

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Thinking, People, Horror

  Source: collider.com

• Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make the industry poorer, it makes the landscape of cinema poorer, in America. The impossibility to get a good release on a really good European, Latin American, Asian movie is a tragedy.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Latin, America, Tragedy

  Source: deadline.com

• If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Independent, Differences, Magic

  Source: deadline.com

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

  Guillermo del Toro

  Halloween, Independent, Horror Genre

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

• If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Film, Storytelling, Responsible

  Source: deadline.com

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