The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROYou 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.
More Guillermo del Toro Quotes
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Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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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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We’re in three living groups, ’cause even after the world’s ended some assholes still can’t get along.
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I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue
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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.
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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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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.
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The underground of the city is like what’s underground in people. Beneath the surface, it’s boiling with monsters.
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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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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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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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You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.
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…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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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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