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
The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion.
I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. That no matter what budget you're doing, you should be dreaming bigger than the budget you have, and then it's a matter of reigning it in to the reality. You try to make things count.
If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.
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 love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film...
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.
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.