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 was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window. Guillermo del Toro age boys window I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films Guillermo del Toro eight film What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek. Guillermo del Toro geek film firsts The way I see film is I think film is like going out to dinner. I feel it's a banquet. You don't want to have the same food you have at home. You want to go and eat a fantastic Chinese meal or Italian or Greek. Guillermo del Toro italian home thinking I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror Guillermo del Toro horror eye thinking If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience. Guillermo del Toro magic independent differences When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go. Guillermo del Toro dimensions want monsters Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make the industry poorer, it makes the landscape of cinema poorer, in America. The impossibility to get a good release on a really good European, Latin American, Asian movie is a tragedy. Guillermo del Toro tragedy latin america For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for. Guillermo del Toro causes fighting stuff There's something worse than not making a movie. It's doing it for the wrong reasons. Then you end up putting three, four, five years of your life into it and you come out with a thing that you're not proud of. Guillermo del Toro four three years You’ll meet her. She’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many days at a time. You’ll see, when she smiles, you’ll love her. Guillermo del Toro sometimes I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe. Guillermo del Toro genre something-new safe I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is the sin of banality and comfort. Those things are in my movies, but also my movies are quite the fruit of somebody who defines himself as an agnostic. Guillermo del Toro pain comfort believe I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others Guillermo del Toro carpenter film I think part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I'd rather deal with restrictions of budget. It's better to feel free within any budget. Guillermo del Toro deals restriction thinking Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the movie industry: So is a video game. Guillermo del Toro video sorry games I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer. Guillermo del Toro tough-questions guy nice Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work. Guillermo del Toro horror scary : There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence. Guillermo del Toro buttons want two We are such skeptics that we find it difficult to believe in God and angels and a spiritual afterlife, but a moment of fear makes our spirit so vulnerable that it allows us to believe in something beyond that. Guillermo del Toro angel spiritual believe
