Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro Gómezis a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, and novelist. In his filmmaking career, del Toro has alternated between Spanish-language dark fantasy pieces, such as the gothic horror film The Devil's Backbone, and Pan's Labyrinth, and more mainstream American action movies, such as the vampire superhero action film Blade II, the supernatural superhero film Hellboy, its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and the science fiction monster film Pacific Rim...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth9 October 1964
CountryMexico
...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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.
People tend to think that big things only happen to big people ... I think that is not true. The small decisions we make every day define who we are and define the world around us. ... But I bet to you there is a decision every day in your life where you affect somebody else.
Producing is great because you learn.
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.
Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.
Survival often feels like an indignity.
: 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.
If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer.
When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.
I love the creation of these things—I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.
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.
It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
There is beautiful in the grotesque.