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Eph too had been turned. Not from human to vampire, but from healer to slayer. — Guillermo Del Toro

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God is an energy, rather than an anthropomorphic being, and God's language is biology. Red blood cells, the principle of magnetic attraction, neurological synapse: each is a miracle, and in each is the presence and flow of God. — Guillermo Del Toro

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My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican. — Guillermo Del Toro

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Normally my clients were my mother, my grandmother, and my dad, and I would sell them the issues with a great color cover. There was a story I remember called 'The Invader,' and it had an invisible dome covering a city, with a giant tentacled monster eating everybody in sight, and people trying to drill a hole in the dome. And I did these epic Prismacolor pencil illustrations and sold out the three issues to my captive audience. — Guillermo Del Toro

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It was well known that she was a junk-food fiend. It was probably what kept her from the waif physique of the most popular girls. Personally I didn't care what king of saturated fats and granulated sugars were to blame for that excellent figure. — Guillermo Del Toro

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Gus wasn't ready to drink the Kool-Aid yet, but he was ready to commit to the final leg of this journey. — Guillermo Del Toro

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It's as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror. — Guillermo Del Toro

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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

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I believe that the physical effect, the physical set, whenever you can, is ten times better than the digital effect. — Guillermo Del Toro

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For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot. — Guillermo Del Toro

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The only thing you can do as an artist is to come to the world, see what no one is doing, and leave behind one or two things that wouldn't have happened without you. — Guillermo Del Toro

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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

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I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen. — Guillermo Del Toro

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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

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Is it ... can we ... is it safe?"
Tub checked the lot but he seemed unconcerned.
"Coach Lawrence nabbed him for practice. We live to fight another day, soldier."
"No ... I mean, the thing ... is it ... ?"
Tub frowned.
"The thing. Hmmm. Can you be more specific?
I clutched at the bumper and raised myself to unsteady feet. I patted the truck bed, taking solace in the cake of dust. It was real; I was not caught in a nightmare. I smeared the dust with my fingers and smelled it.
"If you lick that, we're no longer friends," Tub said. — Guillermo Del Toro

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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

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The term "solar eclipse" is in fact a misnomer. An eclipse occurs when one object passes into a shadow cast by another. In a solar eclipse, the moon does not pass into the sun's shadow, but instead passes between the sun and the earth, obscuring the sun - — Guillermo Del Toro

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I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad ... — Guillermo Del Toro

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It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism. — Guillermo Del Toro

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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

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Fet was paying close attention to the old man. "You know what?" he said. "Twice when you were just talking, I heard you say the word 'vampire.'" Setrakian looked at him evenly. "That you did." After — Guillermo Del Toro

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Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person
it only adds the burden of panic — Guillermo Del Toro

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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

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A key piece of advice from Hermosillo was to have faith in oneself. He would often tell Guillermo, If a road is not presented, you build one. — Guillermo Del Toro

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This is what the beginning of the end of the world will look like — Guillermo Del Toro

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Looking back on one's life, you see that love was the answer to everything. — Guillermo Del Toro

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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with. — Guillermo Del Toro

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If we don't defend what we love-if we let it fade-then our lives lose meaning. We must declare ourselves of what we are ... What we love. — Guillermo Del Toro

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I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film ... — Guillermo Del Toro

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Morbid, but not passive. "I was speaking at a film school in Hollywood, and I said to them, 'Go have a life. Live. Get laid, get into a bar fight. Get knifed in the fucking thorax. Lose all your money. Make all your money back. Jump into a train.' When I was just a child, I was observing the world, but I lived a lot, too. We used to break into abandoned houses. We explored the entire sewer system of Guadalajara on foot. And then I became really crazy as a teenager. — Guillermo Del Toro

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You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there's definitely a maturity about not seeking validation from everyone, every single time. — Guillermo Del Toro

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Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness ... — Guillermo Del Toro

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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

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In you, we have given this world a great gift - and of that, I have no doubt. — Guillermo Del Toro

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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

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I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit. — Guillermo Del Toro

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For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for. — Guillermo Del Toro

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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

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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

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The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion. — Guillermo Del Toro

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I always thought what if you took a myth of childhood like the tooth fairy and made it a central scary thing. We did it on Hellboy and we did it on 'Don't be afraid of the dark'. — Guillermo Del Toro

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I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. That no matter what budget you're doing, you should be dreaming bigger than the budget you have, and then it's a matter of reigning it in to the reality. You try to make things count. — Guillermo Del Toro

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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

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I think damage to the eye or damage to the teeth is one of the most universally cringing things you can do in a movie and these are very fragile sounds. — Guillermo Del Toro

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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

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Rage is never blind. Rage is uniquely focused. — Guillermo Del Toro

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If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling. — Guillermo Del Toro

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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

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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

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I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films. — Guillermo Del Toro

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In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert ... if it's too loud, you're too old. — Guillermo Del Toro

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There are men who bloom in chaos. You call them heroes or villains, depending on which side wins the war, but until the battle call they are but normal men who long for action, who lust for the opportunity to throw off the routine of their normal lives like a cocoon and come into their own. They sense a destiny larger than themselves, but only when structures collapse around them do these men become warriors. — Guillermo Del Toro

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An old man's beliefs matter little. I am the past. You, the future. What are your beliefs? — Guillermo Del Toro

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For in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing. — Guillermo Del Toro

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If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in that house. My father would have said "Shut up and get to your room." So I thought the only sanctioned tyranny in the world is parenthood and everybody goes "Yeah." It's a dictatorship - parenthood. — Guillermo Del Toro

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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

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Del Toro wearing sculpted and molded gelatin makeup, including fake hair and acrylic dentures and gums. — Guillermo Del Toro

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Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters. — Guillermo Del Toro

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What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them. — Guillermo Del Toro

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People who have lived their whole lives feeling half-complete. Who never truly fit anywhere in the world. Who never understood why they were here, or what they were meant for. Who never answered the call, because they never heard it. Because nothing ever spoke to them. — Guillermo Del Toro

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I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world. — Guillermo Del Toro

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In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature. — Guillermo Del Toro

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In the face of such terror and dehumanization, human passion itself was an act of defiance. — Guillermo Del Toro

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The fairies in the ancient notion of fairies, they are not positive and cute and twinkly.They can be incredibly nasty or they can be incredibly benign. It's a really interesting mythology when you dig into it. — Guillermo Del Toro

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For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light. — Guillermo Del Toro

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I'm a lapsed altar boy. — Guillermo Del Toro

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Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch. — Guillermo Del Toro

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I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates. — Guillermo Del Toro

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Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable. — Guillermo Del Toro

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In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be. — Guillermo Del Toro

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Movies that look safe are less interesting. — Guillermo Del Toro

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You live and die two or three times making a movie. First, you write it, and the first pivotal moment comes when you can get it made. The second is in the process of making it, when the movie reveals itself to you, its flaws and its virtues. Then the most unnerving moment is when that movie is then launched into the world. It's like bringing your kid to the first day at school and somebody points out that it has bowlegs, it is cross-eyed, or it's gorgeous. You feel very exposed. — Guillermo Del Toro

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Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman. — Guillermo Del Toro

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In a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond. — Guillermo Del Toro

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There is beautiful in the grotesque. — Guillermo Del Toro

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But Felix was no longer Felix. He was a vampire motherfucker. — Guillermo Del Toro

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You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood. — Guillermo Del Toro

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I don't want to move over to Beverly Hills. My goal is to make the movies I want to make and support the people I want to support. That's it. — Guillermo Del Toro

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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge
the abyss. — Guillermo Del Toro

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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek. — Guillermo Del Toro

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You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success. — Guillermo Del Toro

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Miriam Sacher had survived polio as a child. To Abraham, she was simply the most exquisite little bird who could not fly. — Guillermo Del Toro

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I guess a vampire doesn't have much need for good hygiene. — Guillermo Del Toro

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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

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Everything in our universe is ciphered and to know the cipher is to know the thing - and to know the thing is to command it. — Guillermo Del Toro

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When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go. — Guillermo Del Toro

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I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit. (Guardian interview 2006) — Guillermo Del Toro

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So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a Western version of The Count Of Monte Cristo where the count has a clockwork hand. I have a screenplay called Mephisto's Bridge about a Faustian deal with the devil. I love them all. — Guillermo Del Toro

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Trolls have existed on this planet for as long as humans. This is what I was told and what I translated to Tub. The first mention of them in recorded history is from ninth-century Norway, when the nefarious creatures began showing up in song, verse, and bedtime stories to keep misbehaving children in line. According to Norse folklore, trolls are one of the Dark Beings, the purest embodiments of evil, and they scurried from between the toes of Ymir, the mythic six-headed Frost Giant whose murdered body became the universe in which we live; his bones became the mountains, his teeth boulders, and so forth. — Guillermo Del Toro

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There's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is. — Guillermo Del Toro

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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

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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

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One must always name a weapon. You cannot trust that which you cannot call by name. — Guillermo Del Toro

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In jail you learn that there are two kinds of guys in this world - and I don't care if they're human or bloodsuckers - there's the ones that take it and the ones that hand it out. And this guy, man - this guy gives it out like fucking candy ... — Guillermo Del Toro

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I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema. — Guillermo Del Toro

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As a child that was disenfranchised from everything, and that was in a world that was the wrong size, run by the wrong people, the wrong morale and the wrong rules, I felt completely outside of that, and I wanted some measure of control, and the measure of control I found was through fear. — Guillermo Del Toro

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Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward. — Guillermo Del Toro

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Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur. — Guillermo Del Toro

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And this, I believe, is where my third grade teacher had it wrong: Answers can only aspire to be important. Questions remain forever relevant, forever eloquent. Answers are science, questions are poetry. — Guillermo Del Toro

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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