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.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROI 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.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROBut I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil’s Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROIt’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROI 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.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROThe 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.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROWhat happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROFor me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROI see horror as part of legitimate film. I don’t see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROMovies that look safe are less interesting.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROAs a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROYour heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROI like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue
GUILLERMO DEL TOROThere 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 TOROYou give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
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