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

Guillermo del Toro

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Film Firsts Geek
You can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I’m going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.
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Continue Fantastic Liberation Money
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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Genre Halloween Horror Independent
Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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Interesting Looks Safe
I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I’ll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Character House Needs
You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Giving People World
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
It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Guy Horror Shoes
There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there’s the super vampires, which are a new breed we’ve created.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Ghouls Super Two Vampire
…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Love Maternal might Spiritual
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.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Injustice Projects Superhero
Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Drinking London People
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 Library Profound
You have to believe the magic to see it.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Believe Look Magic People
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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Horror People Thinking
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.”.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Kids Violence Violent

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