Guillermo Tell Quotes & Sayings

When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell? — Guillermo Diaz

And then came the pain. First in her leg, as if something had sunk its teeth into it. A huge beast, a dog, maybe. It locked its jaws onto her limb and tore at the muscles with its teeth. She screamed, that was all she could do, scream. She could not describe the feeling of having her body ripped apart. She remembered her father's despair, his face as he leaned over her bed, and his words: What is it, tell me, what is it? As she writhed in pain, soaked in her own sweat, Don Guillermo, her kind, good father, waited for her to tell him. For an explanation. A meaningful verbalization of this horror, so that he could understand what was happening to his child. Otherwise, how could he help her? Because her frenzied cries were not enough. Pain needs to be articulated, communicated. It needs a kind of dialogue. It needs words. But only screams and shrieks of pain escaped from the child's lips. — Slavenka Drakulic

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing. — Guillermo Del Toro

When I was in high school, I wasn't really popular. I was picked on a lot. And then I did a talent show, and kids started to tell me that I did a good job. It was the first time that my peers told me that they liked what I was doing. Something clicked, and I knew that this is what I wanted to do. — Guillermo Diaz

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