black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.

Guillermo del Toro

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.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Continue Fantastic Liberation Money
The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Desire Harboring Since Being
Movies that look safe are less interesting.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Interesting Looks Safe
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Common Directors Produce
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.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Deals Restriction Thinking
You have to believe the magic to see it.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Believe Look Magic People
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 TORO

Block Retreat Want
I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Genre New Safe Something
…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Love Maternal might Spiritual
Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Heart Knows Uncomplicated
I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Important Real Thinking
The underground of the city is like what’s underground in people. Beneath the surface, it’s boiling with monsters.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Cities Monsters People
I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Country Different People Produce
At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes “I’m not my dad” or “I’m not my mom.”
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Dad Kids Mom
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.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Compromise Despair Easy
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Power Quiet Thinking

You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Guillermo del Toro Quotes