Guillermo del Toro

“I love monsters the way people worship holy images. To me, they really connect in a very fundamental way to my identity.”

“'Crimson' is written in a very particular style, and it's very precise in the way it graduates into a gothic romance. The souls that will connect with it will connect deeply.”

“I loved when the superhero genre crosses with horror. Morbius. Those are the guys I gravitated towards. Blade. So for me, to be interested in doing a superhero movie, it would need to be on the dark side or a Jack Kirby property. Kamandi, Demon, Mr. Miracle - I love any Kirby.”

“I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror.”

“Every Sunday on Channel 6 in Guadalajara, where I lived, they dedicated most every Sunday to black-and-white horror films and sci-fi. So I watched them. I watched 'Tarantula.' I watched 'The Monolith Monsters.' I watched all the Universal library.”

“I was directing before I knew it was called that.”

“בשבילי, קולנוע מורכב מהבנת החיים דרך פנטזיה. זו האפשרות להבין טוב יותר מה אנחנו, איפה אנחנו ומדוע.”

“הדרך הגרועה ביותר ליצור אמנות היא להציע תשובות. אסור לה להטיף. עליה להיות כמו שירה.”

“ההיבט הדרמטי של תמונה וצליל כולל ארבעה מרכיבים: הבמאי, הצלם, העיצוב והתלבושות.”

“אני מעדיף לא לעשות סרטים מאשר לעשות סרטים שהם פשרה יצירתית.”

“ההבדל בין מילה ותמונה היא שהמילה מציעה שותפות עם הקורא.”

“אני מזדהה עם כל הדמויות. אני האיש הטוב ואני האיש הרע.”

“אני רומנטיקן שמתעניין בקלאסיקות.”

“למדתי את השפה הוויזואלית מגיל קטן.”

“What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.”

“I think that most of the monsters I dream of, I dreamt of as a child.”

“For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.”

“He paused in the hallway, sniffing the air. He scowled, sniffed some more. He pressed an intercom button on the wall. "Betty, I distinctly smell sewage. Could you get a plumber out here ASAP?" Several curly hairs fluttered in the air after he was gone. I clutched at the arm of the dentist chair. "This isn't a joke, Tub! I'm in trouble. We're all in trouble, the whole town, the whole world! You have no clue. You have no idea what kind of things we're dealing with here. There's a whole land of --”

“I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget.”

“The great thing about Roald Dahl is he tackled the big questions of life without any fear of being shocking or brutal, because he knew the kids could take it.”