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.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROPower 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.
More Guillermo del Toro Quotes
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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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I think once a Catholic, always a Catholic. You never escape. I still have Catholic guilt. It is in its basis a really powerful religion and a really strong set of beliefs. They permeate my work in many ways.
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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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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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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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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’m the freaky version of that superhero who says, wherever there is injustice, I shall be there. Whenever there is a difficult project, I’d like to be there.
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But 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.
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I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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People think you’re like The Godfather, waiting for scripts to come in. But, you’re hustling, you’re desperate, you’re panicked and you’re horrified. The movie you think you’re going to do next, you don’t do. The movie you think you’re never going to do, you make.
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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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The underground of the city is like what’s underground in people. Beneath the surface, it’s boiling with monsters.
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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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If you’re doing a big spectacle film, you’ve got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you’ve got to be responsible only to your storytelling.
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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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Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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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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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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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.
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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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I’m a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I’d love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.
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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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There’s nothing that defines who you are more than boundaries, whether you cross them or not, in every aspect of your life, and horror is a really great boundary.
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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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