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
...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.
I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film...
You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.
When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership.
I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.
I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad...
I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.
If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling.
I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.
If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.
My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.
video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".