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Guillermo del Toro Quotes
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Director Quotes
Category:
Mexican Director Quotes
Date of Birth:
October 9, 1964
Nationality:
Mexican
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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

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

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.
Guillermo del Toro

Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined.
Guillermo del Toro

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

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others.
Guillermo del Toro

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

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

I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror.
Guillermo del Toro

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

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

I was directing before I knew it was called that.
Guillermo del Toro

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

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

I'm a lapsed altar boy.
Guillermo del Toro

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

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

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

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

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