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 TOROAt some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes “I’m not my dad” or “I’m not my mom.”
More Guillermo del Toro Quotes
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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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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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The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
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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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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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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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At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes “I’m not my dad” or “I’m not my mom.”
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As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
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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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Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.
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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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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.
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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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