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
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.
Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.
For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot
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.
For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.
When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.
For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made
The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.
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.
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.
Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.
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…
I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.
We're in three living groups, 'cause even after the world's ended some assholes still can't get along.