Guillermo del Toro Quotes

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

Power, Quiet, Screen

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

Times, Modern, Glorify

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

Love, Monsters, Identify

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

Others, Sense, Story

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

Loved, Devil, Felt

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

Movies, Made, Until

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

Both, Movie, Ends

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

Good, Attitude, Through

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

Others, Films, Carpenter

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

Nothing, Film, Rest

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

Started, Films, Super

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

Movies, Second, Gigantic

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

Before, Knew, Directing

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

Movies, Two, Group

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

Someone, Tell, Camera

I'm a lapsed altar boy.
Guillermo del Toro

Boy, Altar, Lapsed

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

Rock, Old, Loud

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

Good, Through, Made

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

Two, Vampire, Vampires

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

Experience, Getting, Faithful

Well I think effects are tools.
Guillermo del Toro

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

Film, Happens, Geek

When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.
Guillermo del Toro

Country, Teenager, Video

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Biography

Nationality: Mexican

Born: October 9, 1964

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