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
I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.
Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
I don't want to move over to Beverly Hills. My goal is to make the movies I want to make and support the people I want to support. That's it.
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.
As a child that was disenfranchised from everything, and that was in a world that was the wrong size, run by the wrong people, the wrong morale and the wrong rules, I felt completely outside of that, and I wanted some measure of control, and the measure of control I found was through fear.
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.
The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.
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.
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.
In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
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.