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.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROThe point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
More Guillermo del Toro Quotes
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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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I’m a movement Nazi. It used to be my way before. Now, in the last three projects. I found a way to let the actors find their comfort and still find the precision in the show. It’s a change in me.
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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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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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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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I think making small movies reminds you of the effort. When you make big movies, the effort is to fight for freedom. When you make small movies, the effort is making the day, making the budget, and it’s great, too.
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In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
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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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For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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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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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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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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There is beautiful in the grotesque.
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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?”.
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Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
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