I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it's really great. I don't like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it. Guillermo del Toro More Quotes by Guillermo del Toro More Quotes From Guillermo del Toro There is beauty and humility in imperfection. Guillermo del Toro imperfection humility beauty For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul. Guillermo del Toro me hard-work work life What is scary to me is silly to somebody else. CG isn't scary to me. It's like comedy - comedy and horror are quite similar, in that there'll always be somebody who'll say, 'I don't think that was funny.' And it's the same with things that are meant to be scary. Guillermo del Toro think me comedy funny Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection. Guillermo del Toro saints patron imperfection monsters I believe that we, every day, 24-7, all the days of our lives, we are, all of us, agents of construction and agents of destruction. Guillermo del Toro every-day day construction believe To me, the thing love and cinema have in common is that they are about seeing. The greatest act of love you can give to anyone is to see them exactly as they are. That's the greatest act of love because you wash away imperfections. Guillermo del Toro me you cinema love I think the greatest giant insect movie ever made is 'Them!' Guillermo del Toro insect greatest i-think think I don't think there is life beyond death. I don't. But I do believe that we get this clarity in the last minute of our life. The titles we achieved, the honors we managed, they all vanish. You are left alone with you and your deeds and the things you didn't do. Guillermo del Toro alone you life death I saw a martyr in the Wolf Man, who is the very moving essence of outsiderness, with which I identified fully. Guillermo del Toro wolf man martyr moving I think when we wake up in the morning, we can choose between fear and love. Every morning. And every morning, if you choose one, that doesn't define you until the end... The way you end your story is important. It's important that we choose love over fear, because love is the answer. Guillermo del Toro you fear morning love When I was a kid, monsters made me feel that I could fit somewhere, even if it was... an imaginary place where the grotesque and the abnormal were celebrated and accepted. Guillermo del Toro feel place kid me It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain. Guillermo del Toro deny effort adversity pain Insects are living metaphors for me. They are so alien and so remote and so perfect, but also they are emotionless; they don't have any human or mammalian instincts. They'll eat their young at the drop of a hat; they can eat your house! There's no empathy - none. Guillermo del Toro hat me empathy house I was a kid when I read Jane Eyre and fell in love with that universe. I didn't have the acumen to say the prose is old or the prose is too complex. I just fell in love with Jane's very lonely soul, much the same way I fell in love with Frankenstein's creature for the same reason. Those old souls exist in every decade in every century. Guillermo del Toro universe soul love way To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime story to my kids or trying to mount a movie or write a short story or a novel, I take it very seriously. Guillermo del Toro daily me life art I'd love to come back as the most annoying ghost ever. Guillermo del Toro come back annoying love There is a heavy Mexican Catholic streak in my movies, and a huge Mexican sense of melodrama. Everything is overwrought, and there's a sense of acceptance of the fantastic in my films, which is innately Mexican. So when people ask, 'How can you define the Mexican-ness of your films?' I go, 'How can I not?' It's all I am. Guillermo del Toro i-am you acceptance people I had nightmares as a kid. As an adult, I have very prosaic dreams. Guillermo del Toro nightmares adult dreams kid I love monsters the way people worship holy images. To me, they really connect in a very fundamental way to my identity. Guillermo del Toro me identity love people To me, movies are books. They are texts to be consulted. Guillermo del Toro texts books movies me
