Guillermo del Toro Quotes

Guillermo del Toro Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Guillermo del Toro
Type:
Director
Nationality:
Mexican
Birth day:
October 9
Birth year:
1964

  • 1
    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. Guillermo del Toro
  • 2
    Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined. Guillermo del Toro
  • 3
    I am going to mind the grosses, the opening box offices but why I am concerned with mostly is for the movie to be what I want it to be. Guillermo del Toro
  • 4
    I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue. Guillermo del Toro
  • 5
    I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others. Guillermo del Toro
  • 6
    I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema. Guillermo del Toro
  • 7
    I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films. Guillermo del Toro
  • 8
    I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror. Guillermo del Toro
  • 9
    I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit. Guillermo del Toro
  • 10
    I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window. Guillermo del Toro
  • 11
    I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm. Guillermo del Toro
  • 12
    In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old. Guillermo del Toro
  • 13
    It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism. Guillermo del Toro
  • 14
    The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good. Guillermo del Toro
  • 15
    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. Guillermo del Toro
  • 16
    They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do. Guillermo del Toro
  • 17
    Well I think effects are tools. Guillermo del Toro
  • 18
    Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters. Guillermo del Toro
  • 19
    What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek. Guillermo del Toro
  • 20
    When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly. Guillermo del Toro

 

 

 

 

 

 

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