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…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

Guillermo del Toro

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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Guy Nice Questions Tough
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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Compromise Despair Easy
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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Common Country Long People
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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Common Directors Produce
When I stage a violent scene, I try for it to serve a purpose. I do love those things, the makeup effects. But I love them more with the monsters. I never was much of a gore guy. I’ve always enjoyed just creating monsters.
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Guy Makeup Trying
You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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Giving People World
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.
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Broken Hard Thinking Work
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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Abyss Genius Mystery
As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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Cutting Directors Finals
The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
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Desire Harboring Since Being
What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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Film Firsts Geek
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
Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.
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Powerful Unseen Way
I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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Country Different People Produce
There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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Beautiful Grotesque Happen
I think once a Catholic, always a Catholic. You never escape. I still have Catholic guilt. It is in its basis a really powerful religion and a really strong set of beliefs. They permeate my work in many ways.
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Powerful Strong Thinking

…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

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