Guillermo Del Toro Quotes

I think that is the ultimate cowardice, when someone makes your choices for you in an institutional way. And you just say, "Well, I have no other option."

You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.

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.

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films

The only thing you can do as an artist is to come to the world, see what no one is doing, and leave behind one or two things that wouldn’t have happened without you.

I thought the tooth fairy was a very creepy concept as a kid. "Put your tooth under the pillow." I was like "Why does someone want my teeth?".

You need to adjust your compass to an obtainable goal.

The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.

For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.

I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna understand the instincts that are going to inform the story.

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.

I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.

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.

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

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.

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.

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.

Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.

Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.

I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.

I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.

I don't want to move over to Beverly Hills. My goal is to make the movies I want to make and support the people I want to support. That's it.

Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -

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.

Survival often feels like an indignity.

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

for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.

I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit

I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror

Well I think effects are tools

You’ll meet her. She’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many days at a time. You’ll see, when she smiles, you’ll love her.

I believe that the physical effect, the physical set, whenever you can, is ten times better than the digital effect.

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.

I think that during the shoot, you should never be there, unless something goes really wrong and as producer, you're responsible. The sign you did your job right is if you are not there.

I had gotten to the point where I just didn't want to perform anymore - I didn't want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it.

At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes "I'm not my dad" or "I'm not my mom."

I always thought what if you took a myth of childhood like the tooth fairy and made it a central scary thing. We did it on Hellboy and we did it on 'Don't be afraid of the dark'.

When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.

I think damage to the eye or damage to the teeth is one of the most universally cringing things you can do in a movie and these are very fragile sounds.

I have "fat-guy syndrome." If they give me $50 million to make a movie, I'll try to make it look like it cost a hundred. If they give me $60 million, I'll try to make it look like it cost $120.

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.

It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.

The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.

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.".

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.

The only true immortality is when you don't care if you die. The moment you stop giving credence to gain is when you become invulnerable to pain.

The movies that I do are in love with cinema, and I try to show that I am in love with cinema. I want them to be, in other ways, drinking from other sources.

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.