There's nothing that defines who you are more than boundaries, whether you cross them or not, in every aspect of your life, and horror is a really great boundary. Guillermo del Toro More Quotes by Guillermo del Toro More Quotes From Guillermo del Toro I find I'm waking up really early now, just to read. Waking up at ungodly hours. But I try to keep up, religiously. When I was a kid, it used to be a book a day. Then a book a week. Now it's like a book every two weeks. But I read every day. Guillermo del Toro trying kids book I think we live our lives seeking the shortest route, the closest parking space - everything quick, cheap, fast. And it's not better. Two-thirds of the satisfaction of getting something is the process of getting it. Guillermo del Toro thinking When somebody says something I don't agree with, I say I'd rather not. It comes to the point where that is the strongest form of resistance. As a Mexican, it took me a long while to learn one word in English, "no". And that is the one word we have in common. Guillermo del Toro mexican common long As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut. Guillermo del Toro finals cutting directors I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy. Guillermo del Toro character kids book I think that during the shoot, you should never be there, unless something goes really wrong and as producer, you're responsible. The sign you did your job right is if you are not there. Guillermo del Toro responsible jobs thinking 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 vampire ghouls two 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 pantomime actors attitude Well I think effects are tools Guillermo del Toro wells tools thinking 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 ghost-stories devil thinking 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 brilliant diaries ideas And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight. Guillermo del Toro honor faces blood When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it. Guillermo del Toro intuition mean art Survival often feels like an indignity. Guillermo del Toro indignity survival feels I thought the tooth fairy was a very creepy concept as a kid. "Put your tooth under the pillow." I was like "Why does someone want my teeth?". Guillermo del Toro teeth creepy kids If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth. Guillermo del Toro liars writing reality I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen Guillermo del Toro power quiet thinking 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 hellboy faithful experience The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters. Guillermo del Toro cities monsters people ...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is. Guillermo del Toro maternal-love spiritual might
