Movies that look safe are less interesting. Guillermo del Toro More Quotes by Guillermo del Toro More Quotes From Guillermo del Toro Producing is great because you learn. Guillermo del Toro My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear." Guillermo del Toro imagine monsters world There are a lot of period movies where they say, 'This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.' And it's done in like a 1950s or 60s style. Guillermo del Toro portraits style done I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I'll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house. Guillermo del Toro house character needs America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming. Guillermo del Toro optimism gold america When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way. Guillermo del Toro vivid america way I love the idea of creating a sort of nuanced portrait of kids that they're not all perfect. They're kind of misfits but not in a picturesque, hip way, they're really, really kids that are not entirely great. Guillermo del Toro creating kids ideas With every movie I produce, I learn something. I watch the directors. It's like the relationship you have with your children. I'm there to learn from my daughters. They are the perfect spirits. Guillermo del Toro daughter perfect children With supernatural things, I have heard ghosts, but I've never seen ghosts. I do seek ghosts and I would love to see one, but I would crap my pants. Guillermo del Toro pants ghost heard I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing. Guillermo del Toro produce i-can different People think you're like The Godfather, waiting for scripts to come in. But, you're hustling, you're desperate, you're panicked and you're horrified. The movie you think you're going to do next, you don't do. The movie you think you're never going to do, you make. Guillermo del Toro waiting people thinking If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate. Guillermo del Toro partnership intimate directors There are two types of producing deals, and I've had both. I've produced over 20 movies now. You are either watching in horror, as the cars take the curve in the grand prix, or you're enjoying it. Guillermo del Toro curves car two I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with. Guillermo del Toro produce common directors Normally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made. Guillermo del Toro modern problem looks The movies that I do are in love with cinema, and I try to show that I am in love with cinema. I want them to be, in other ways, drinking from other sources. Guillermo del Toro cinema drinking trying 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 movie groups two I don't try to define the cosmos, I know it's unknowable, but I can understand my place in the world and my place in the universe through a mixture of Taoism, Catholicism, Zen or whatever I have at hand. Guillermo del Toro taoism trying hands Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story. Guillermo del Toro ghost-stories fun way Making a film is like raising a child. You cannot raise a child to be liked by everyone. You raise a child to excel, and you teach the child to be true to his own nature. There will be people who'll dislike your child because he or she is who they are, and there will be people who'll love your child immensely for the very same reason. Guillermo del Toro you nature love people
