I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot. Guillermo del Toro More Quotes by Guillermo del Toro More Quotes From Guillermo del Toro For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light. Guillermo del Toro black-and-whitelightmonsters I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna understand the instincts that are going to inform the story. Guillermo del Toro instinctstoriescommon Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find. Guillermo del Toro uncomplicatedknowsheart 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. Guillermo del Toro lastscomfortway I love the creation of these things — I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures. Guillermo del Toro things-i-lovehalfjoy 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. Guillermo del Toro powerfulstrongthinking Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined Guillermo del Toro hellboyendsfirsts When I see a short schedule, my question to the director is, are you really comfortable with this, or are you doing it to be a good boy? At the end, you only win the medal if the film is good, you don't win a medal if the movie is on time. Guillermo del Toro winningboysdirectors When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership. Guillermo del Toro partnershipdirectors I have my library separate from the family home, and every room is a different genre. The only room that I can guarantee I've read everything is the horror room. Guillermo del Toro librarydifferenthome I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal was, Don't sell out. We live in a society that by virtue of the speed we communicate and sell, everything sells. The danger is buying in; that your concern becomes success, rather than fulfillment. They're two different beasts, and my feeling is that you should seek fulfillment. You should not measure your worth in how much you have or how popular you are, but how happy you are with what you do. Guillermo del Toro hippiepastthinking 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 Toro fantasticliberation Movies that look safe are less interesting. Guillermo del Toro safelooksinteresting In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish– thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust. Guillermo del Toro strugglebelieveart If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer. Guillermo del Toro boredifs I absolutely am a big Call of Duty fan. Every time a new Call of Duty comes out – I never play the games online, but I play the solo version super fast. My family knows not to interrupt me the day they come out, they know it's a sacred date for me. I think my favorite visually, of all of the Call of Duty games -- even if it's not as sassy and high tech -- is World at War because. That game has some really incredible episodes in Berlin and the Japanese fields. It's really quite arresting for me, visually, and it was very immersive. But I love Modern Warfare, too. Guillermo del Toro sassywarthinking 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. Guillermo del Toro superheroinjusticeprojects The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion. Guillermo del Toro emotionspiritualreality I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of. Guillermo del Toro good-movieproudthinking You 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 Toro hard-workbrokenthinking
