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
Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.
There's nothing that defines who you are more than boundaries, whether you cross them or not, in every aspect of your life, and horror is a really great boundary.
I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it's really great. I don't like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.
I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror
It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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 am going to mind the grosses, the opening box offices but why I am concerned with mostly is for the movie to be what I want it to be.
In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old.
I was directing before I knew it was called that.
It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.
I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.
As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.
If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.