Guillermo del Toro Quotes - Page 4

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• I love the idea of creating a sort of nuanced portrait of kids that they're not all perfect. They're kind of misfits but not in a picturesque, hip way, they're really, really kids that are not entirely great.

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  Kids, Ideas, Creating

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Winning, Boys, Directors

  Source: deadline.com

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• If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in that house. My father would have said "Shut up and get to your room." So I thought the only sanctioned tyranny in the world is parenthood and everybody goes "Yeah." It's a dictatorship - parenthood.

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  Father, Believe, House

  Source: collider.com

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• In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish– thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust.

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  Art, Believe, Struggle

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• When somebody says something I don't agree with, I say I'd rather not. It comes to the point where that is the strongest form of resistance. As a Mexican, it took me a long while to learn one word in English, "no". And that is the one word we have in common.

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  Long, Mexican, Common

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Oliver Stone will never be happy with the first take. He wants more than that. When you’re delivering your lines, he’ll stop you and tell you some kind of riddle about the character and you have to go away and figure that out. If you’re hoping for him to give you all the answers, then you’re in for a long day.

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  Character, Long, Giving

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I'm the freaky version of that superhero who says, wherever there is injustice, I shall be there. Whenever there is a difficult project, I'd like to be there.

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  Superhero, Injustice, Projects

  Source: deadline.com

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• Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

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  Looks, Filmmaker, Studios

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• Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined

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  Firsts, Ends, Hellboy

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• 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.

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  Home, Library, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• I absolutely am a big Call of Duty fan. Every time a new Call of Duty comes out – I never play the games online, but I play the solo version super fast. My family knows not to interrupt me the day they come out, they know it's a sacred date for me. I think my favorite visually, of all of the Call of Duty games -- even if it's not as sassy and high tech -- is World at War because. That game has some really incredible episodes in Berlin and the Japanese fields. It's really quite arresting for me, visually, and it was very immersive. But I love Modern Warfare, too.

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  War, Sassy, Thinking

  "Guillermo Del Toro Talks Call Of Duty". Interview with John Gaudiosi, www.ign.com. August 31, 2011.

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• You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.

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  Father, Childhood, Good Father

  Source: collider.com

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• We're in three living groups, 'cause even after the world's ended some assholes still can't get along.

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  Groups, Three, World

  "The Night Eternal: Book Three of the Strain Trilogy". Book by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, October 25, 2011.

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• Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.

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  Stories, Moral

  Guillermo del Toro (2013). “The Complete Strain Trilogy: The Strain, The Fall, The Night Eternal”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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• Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, "We love the movie but it's too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.".

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  Kids, Violence, Violent

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear."

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  Monsters, World, Imagine

  Source: collider.com

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• Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.

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  Scary, Horror

  Source: collider.com

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• : There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence.

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  Two, Buttons, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• For any actor to have Oliver Stone call him or her up… It’s a compliment. He expects you to be on your toes. If you’re not, he pokes at you until you react. He’s very provocative, creatively. It started like a lot of hard work, but it ended up a lot of fun.

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  Fun, Hard Work, Compliment

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• If you can be that link to other people that came before you and the ones that come after, then you have to honor that link. If you are doing what somebody else tells you to do and you have success, it's horrible. And if you are doing what other people tell you to do and you fail, it's equally horrible.

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  People, Honor, Failing

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• What is fantastic for me is that the Romantic movement comes out as a counter balance to everything that has been accumulating since the Age of Reason. I think the downfall of imagination as a genre or as a perception starts with the Age of Reason, which says everything else that came before us, all those superstitions, all those myths, are childish.

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  Thinking, Imagination, Perception

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• When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.

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  America, Vivid, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.

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  Book, Character, Kids

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I think part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I'd rather deal with restrictions of budget. It's better to feel free within any budget.

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  Thinking, Restriction, Deals

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't try to define the cosmos, I know it's unknowable, but I can understand my place in the world and my place in the universe through a mixture of Taoism, Catholicism, Zen or whatever I have at hand.

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  Hands, Taoism, Trying

  Source: hollywoodchicago.com

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