For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROFor Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROI 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.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROYou have to believe the magic to see it.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROThere is beautiful in the grotesque.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROYou 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.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROYou can’t explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROI 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?”.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROThere 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 TOROI 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.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROWhen you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight – it’s faster in a way.
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 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 TOROI only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROThe point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you’ve been harboring since you were 7.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROWhat 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.
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
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